Hi Vagrant, On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 at 17:53, Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> wrote: > Please consider a guix lint description/synopsis check for basic > spelling, typo and rudimentary grammar issues. > > Most of the ones I've found were caught by debian's "lintian" tool: > > https://tracker.debian.org/lintian
[...] > Many of these are likely to be caught by most spell checking routines; > I'm not sure if there is anything that would be implementable in pure > guile, or it if would make sense to call out to an external > spellchecker. The tool is ’spellintian’ [1], right? If yes, the work seems done by [2] but I am not sure to understand if it is only regexp and Perl or if an external tool is called. And the list in debian/control is not very helpful. 1: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/bin/spellintian 2: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/lib/Lintian/Spelling.pm > That is, of course, if "guix lint" is being used consistently... :) It should be! :-) All the best, simon