Re: Planning to remove pkgtools/pkglint4

[Leonardo Taccari <leot%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Hello Roland,

Roland Illig writes:
> In 2015 I completely rewrote pkglint and left the old implementation for
> those whose preferred platform is not supported by the Go programming
> language.
>
> This old pkglint has not been kept up-to-date, it issues many wrong
> warnings and doesn't have several new useful warnings. Therefore I'd
> like to remove it, in order to avoid confusion.
>
> Who is still using pkglint4, and on which platforms? Please speak up.
>

Please do not remove it.  Despite the quality of the warnings/errors
isn't as good as pkgtools/pkglint I still find it helpful and daily
use it on NetBSD/evbarm aarch64.