[Git][lintian/lintian][master] Adjust documentation to the modern pattern for naming checks.

Felix Lechner pushed to branch master at lintian / lintian

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by Felix Lechner at 2022-03-03T09:50:29-08:00

Adjust documentation to the modern pattern for naming checks.

Thanks to Mark Hindley from Devuan for bringing the matter to our attention!

Gbp-Dch: ignore

1 changed file:

doc/lintian.rst

Changes:

doc/lintian.rst

@@ -826,17 +826,11 @@ Existing checks can be shadowed by placing a check with the same name in
  a directory appearing earlier in the list. This also holds for the
  checks provided by Lintian itself.
 -Checks in Lintian consist of a description file (.desc) and a Perl
 -module implementing the actual check (.pm). The names of these checks
 -must consist entirely of the lower case characters ([a-z]), digits
 -([0-9]), underscore (_), dash (-), period (.) and forward slashes (/).
 +Checks in Lintian consist of a Perl module implementing the actual check
 +(.pm). The files names of such checks are expected to be in CamelCase. For
 +the check name used on the command line, case transitions are replaced with
 +hyphens. Perl's two colons (::) are replaced with a slash.
 -The check name must be a valid Perl unique module name after the
 -following transformations. All periods and dashes are replaced with
 -underscores. All forward slashes are replaced with two colons (::).
+-
 -Check names without a forward slash (e.g. "fields") and names starting
 -with either "lintian/" or "coll/" are reserved for the Lintian core.
  Vendors are recommended to use their vendor name before the first slash
  (e.g. "ubuntu/fields").