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From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
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Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, ports@freebsd.org,
	Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Something wrong with portlint?
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--On Tuesday, January 24, 2006 15:57:43 -0500 Frank Laszlo 
<laszlof@vonostingroup.com> wrote:

> Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> --On Tuesday, January 24, 2006 12:47:40 -0800 Brooks Davis
>> <brooks@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@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.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/