#130 Validation check for *Script no-op

[Chris Dolan]

As documented in the email referenced below, there are
a ton of ways maintainers signal a no-op in the
CompileScript or InstallScript. For example,
'CompileScript: echo "nothing to compile"'. Better
form is to silently return a true value via
'CompileScript: /usr/bin/true'. This is better because
it's less verbose (who cares if there is nothing to
compile?) and it reduces the English text for when we
internationalize Fink someday (inevitable, I think).

The attached patch adds a .info validation step that
recommends that the maintainer change no-ops to
/usr/bin/true. It only checks in pedantic mode
(verbosity > 3).

Email reference:
http://sf.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10116957

Feedback is appreciated. If this change is deemed good
by people, I'll cvs commit it myself.

[Chris Dolan]

Validation.pm patch

[Daniel Macks]

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Please don't apply this (in its current form) until -devel
resolves the issue of making validation checks dependent on
verbosity level.

[Chris Dolan]

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Understood, Dan. This is obviously a low-priority patch.

[Max Horn]

The updated email reference to this is http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel/9525/match=

And I recently thought about exactly this "issue" ;) so I'd like something like this being implemented.