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Re:Excellent succinct breakdown of the xz mess, from an Open... by lenerdenator on Friday April 05, 2024 @12:24PM (#39944309)
I take it they're not forcing contributors to lint code, then?
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Re:Excellent succinct breakdown of the xz mess, from an Open... by klyrs on Friday April 05, 2024 @12:48PM (#39944553)
Does your linter look for syntax errors in the content of strings? If so, how would you design a unit test meant to capture syntax errors?
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Re:Excellent succinct breakdown of the xz mess, from an Open... by tedunangst on Friday April 05, 2024 @12:53PM (#39944593)
Have you tried running lint on a configure.ac or CMakeLists.txt file?
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