Something wrong with portlint?

[Frank Laszlo]

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Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Tuesday, January 24, 2006 15:57:43 -0500 Frank Laszlo
> <laszlof at vonostingroup.com> wrote:
>
>> Paul Schmehl wrote:
>>> --On Tuesday, January 24, 2006 12:47:40 -0800 Brooks Davis
>>> <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 02:38:56PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>>>>> --On Tuesday, January 24, 2006 15:24:43 -0500 Frank Laszlo
>>>>> <laszlof at vonostingroup.com> wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Put a newline after the "commented" section on the top, all is
>>>>> fine.
>>>>> > Like so:
>>>>> >
>>>>> ># New ports collection makefile for:    barnyard
>>>>> ># Date created:                         1 Feb 2005
>>>>> ># Whom:                                 pauls
>>>>> >#
>>>>> ># $FreeBSD: ports/security/barnyard/Makefile,v 1.5 2005/11/15
>>>>> 06:50:54
>>>>> > ade Exp $
>>>>> >#
>>>>> > <newline here>
>>>>> > PORTNAME=       barnyard
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Cheers,
>>>>> >    Frank
>>>>>
>>>>> Sheesh.  Wouldn't it be nice if the Handbook actually stipulated
>>>>> that?
>>>>
>>>> Or better yet if the worthless comment section died except for the
>>>> $FreeBSD$ bit. :-P
>>>>
>>> But you'd still have the required newline between that and the text of
>>> the Makefile, right?
>>>
>>>
>> It shouldn't really be required, its mostly just cosmetic.
>>
> But if you leave it out, it drives portlint nuts.
>
Portlint should find another way to seek to the PORTNAME section of the
Makefile.