nixpkgs/maintainers/scripts/nixpkgs-lint.nix
Eelco Dolstra 6b495e9251 Add nixpkgs-lint
This is a simple tool to scan Nixpkgs for violations of the packaging
guidelines, such as multiple packages with the same name, packages
that lack a description or license, and so on.

To use:

$ nix-env -i nixpkgs-lint
$ cd .../nixpkgs
$ nixpkgs-lint

Current statistics:

Number of packages: 8666
Number of missing maintainers: 3711
Number of missing licenses: 6159
Number of missing descriptions: 1337
Number of bad descriptions: 633
Number of name collisions: 277
2013-07-25 23:52:36 +02:00

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{ stdenv, makeWrapper, perl, perlPackages }:
stdenv.mkDerivation {
name = "nixpkgs-lint-1";
buildInputs = [ makeWrapper perl perlPackages.XMLSimple ];
unpackPhase = "true";
buildPhase = "true";
installPhase =
''
mkdir -p $out/bin
cp ${./nixpkgs-lint.pl} $out/bin/nixpkgs-lint
wrapProgram $out/bin/nixpkgs-lint --set PERL5LIB $PERL5LIB
'';
meta = {
maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.eelco ];
description = "A utility for Nixpkgs contributors to check Nixpkgs for common errors";
};
}