Bug#760021: lintian: check for not wrap-and-sort formatted files

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Hi Eric & Mattia,

> you could check a number of variations

>From a practical point of view; how, exactly? Shelling out to
wrap-and-sort doesn't seem kosher :)

> > Summing up: I don't think it's a practise ready to be nudged by lintian
> > yet.
> 
> Not even at the pedantic level?

Mattia convinced me, alas. Yes, not even at the "P:" level. Perhaps I'm
stuck on thinking about the implementation...

Here's another possibility however: Lintian warns about things — at
a pedantic level — that wrap-and-sort would correct? For example,
trailing whitespace, etc.


Regards,

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