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Re: pkglint vs pkglint4?

To: pkgsrc-users <pkgsrc-users%netbsd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: pkglint vs pkglint4?
From: Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 10:20:38 +0200

On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 5:32 AM Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost> wrote:
> What is the difference between the two. Can we have 1 lint instead of two?

Ignore the older one.

The newer pkglint (5, I believe) is written in Go, which does not
support all OSes / archs that pkgsrc runs on. So as a band-aid, the
older one is still in there.

-- 
Benny

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