Changes since 21.4.4:
Python packages that declare 2.7 as an incompatible Python version no
longer need to provide a rationale for this since it is common knowledge
that Python 2.7 is old and therefore unsupported by many modern
packages.
Changes since 21.4.1:
When checking a package, check for naming collision with other packages
from the same category, on case-insensitive file systems. For packages
from pkgsrc-wip, additionally perform the same check for the main
category of the package, to prepare for importing the package.
Changes since 21.2.1:
Check the variable names of OPSYS-specific variables for typos, such as
'Dragonfly' with a lowercase 'f'. Suggested by David A. Holland in
PR pkg/56352.
Warn if variables like CFLAGS are assigned using the operator '='.
Suggested by David A. Holland in PR pkg/56352.
Changes since 20.1.15:
When a package adds an additional version requirement for another
package, it must do so using BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS instead of
BUILDLINK_ABI_DEPENDS. Most packages already do this.
When a values is appended to an undefined variable using the += operator,
bmake does not add a space before, and pkglint caught up to do the same.
This change has no practical consequences though.
As always, a bit of refactoring. The method names of MkAssignChecker
contained the redundant word "varassign".
Changes since 20.1.2:
Stricter check for Python version numbers. Before, 25 and 26 had not
been marked as wrong.
In assignments like PKGNAME=${DISTNAME:S,from,to,}, modifiers that don't
have any effect generate a note. Most of these modifiers are redundant
or outdated.
Patches must not add well-known absolute paths like /usr/pkg, /var and
/etc since these must be overridable by the pkgsrc user. Other absolute
paths continue to be allowed.
Changes since 19.4.11:
Redundant additions to BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS and BUILDLINK_ABI_DEPENDS
get warnings since they may have been needed in the past but the
dependent package has increased its required version numbers over time.
Changes since 19.4.7:
The diagnostic for homepages using FTP is simpler now.
When running pkglint recursively on the top-level directory, the
inter-package checks (distfile hashes, unused licenses) are enabled
implicitly. This way, the only effect of the -Cglobal option is now
whether the pkgsrc infrastructure files are checked as well.
The check for removed packages that have not been recorded in
doc/CHANGES prints the correct lines when pkglint is run with the
--source option.
Fatal technical errors are no longer treated as diagnostics since they
are none. That was an early conceptual mistake, but since these fatal
error didn't happen often, it didn't matter.
In diagnostics, when referring to other lines, the previously used words
before/after have been replaced with above/below to avoid any confusion
whether space or time is meant.
In CONF_FILES, spaces and quotes are allowed.
See https://gnats.netbsd.org/42191.
Fixed unintended side-effects when running pkglint --autofix --only.
Before, all fixes were applied to the file, whether or not they matched
the --only option.
Fixed resolution of relative paths of the form ../../category/package
when they appeared in an infrastructure file.
Lots of refactorings and housekeeping, as usual.
Changes since 19.4.0:
The notes for inserting an empty line have been changed from "insert
after this line" to "insert before this line" to make the line numbers
in the diagnostics contiguous. There had been several places where the
diagnostics went from line 1 to line 2 and then back to line 1, which
was confusing.
The lines in ALTERNATIVES files are checked for trailing whitespace.
This is only for consistency with the other checks. In the whole pkgsrc
tree all ALTERNATIVES files are already fine.
The diagnostics for comments in .endif/.endfor lines that don't
correspond to their .if/.elif/.for counterparts now includes the exact
line number of the corresponding condition, to make the warning easier
to fix.
The diagnostics for wrong variable value alignment now mention the
current column in addition to the desired column, to make it easier to
see by how much and in which direction the indentation should be fixed.
Variables that are used in conditions before they are actually defined
need the :U modifier.
Changes since 19.3.14:
Invalid lines in PLIST files are now reported as errors instead of
warnings. If pkglint doesn't know about it, it must be an error.
In PLIST files, all paths are validated to be canonical. That is, no
dotdot components, no absolute paths, no extra slashes, no intermediate
dot components.
Fewer notes for unexpanded variable expressions in DESCR files. Before,
the text $@ was reported as possible Makefile variable even though it
was just a Perl expression.
README files are allowed again in pkgsrc package directories. There was
no convincing argument why these should be forbidden.
A few diagnostics have been changed from NOTE to WARNING or from WARNING
to ERROR, to match their wording.
When pkglint suggests to replace :M with ==, the wording is now "can be
made" instead of "should".
Changes since 19.3.13:
When pkglint suggests to replace !empty(VARNAME:Mfixed) with ${VARNAME}
== fixed, the exact suggested expression is now part of the diagnostic.
The check and the autofix have been improved. They now apply only to the
last modifier in the whole chain, everything else was a bug in pkglint.
Pkglint now knows the scope of variables better than before. It knows
the difference between variables from <sys.mk> like MACHINE_ARCH, which
are always in scope, and those from mk/defaults/mk.conf, which only come
into scope later, after bsd.prefs.mk has been included. It warns when
variables are used too early, for example in .if conditions.
The pathnames in ALTERNATIVES files are now checked for absolute
pathnames. This mistake doesn't happen in practice, but the code for
converting the different path types internally made it necessary to add
these checks. At least this prevents typos.
The special check for obsolete licenses has been removed since their
license files have been removed and that is checked as well.
Variables named *_AWK may be appended to.
The variables _PKG_SILENT and _PKG_DEBUG are no longer deprecated, they
are obsolete now. They are not used in main pkgsrc and pkgsrc-wip
anymore.
When a package sets a default value for a user-settable variable (which
is something that should not happen anyway), it should .include
bsd.prefs.mk before, in order to not accidentally overwrite the
user-specified value.
Variable modifiers of the form :from=to are now parsed like in bmake.
They are greedy and eat up any following colons as well. This means that
${VAR:.c=.o:Q} replaces source.c with source.o:Q, instead of quoting it.
Pkglint now warns about such cases.
The handling of relative paths in diagnostics is now consistent. All
paths that are part of a diagnostic are relative to the line that issues
the diagnostic.
Fatal errors are no longer suppressed in --autofix mode.
Plus lots of refactoring, to prevent accidental mixing of incompatible
relative paths.
