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bug#44675: guix lint: support for spellchecker or basic grammar
From: |
zimoun |
Subject: |
bug#44675: guix lint: support for spellchecker or basic grammar |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Nov 2020 06:55:44 +0100 |
Hi Vagrant,
On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 at 17:53, Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> wrote:
> Please consider a guix lint description/synopsis check for basic
> spelling, typo and rudimentary grammar issues.
>
> Most of the ones I've found were caught by debian's "lintian" tool:
>
> https://tracker.debian.org/lintian
[...]
> Many of these are likely to be caught by most spell checking routines;
> I'm not sure if there is anything that would be implementable in pure
> guile, or it if would make sense to call out to an external
> spellchecker.
The tool is ’spellintian’ [1], right? If yes, the work seems done by
[2] but I am not sure to understand if it is only regexp and Perl or if
an external tool is called. And the list in debian/control is not very
helpful.
1:
https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/bin/spellintian
2:
https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/lib/Lintian/Spelling.pm
> That is, of course, if "guix lint" is being used consistently... :)
It should be! :-)
All the best,
simon