Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : shellcheck
Version : 0.3.3
Upstream Author : Vidar Holen <vi...@vidarholen.net>
* URL : https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ShellCheck
* License : Affero GPL3
Programming Lang: Haskell
Description : static analysis and linting tool for sh/bash scripts
The goals of ShellCheck are:
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* To point out and clarify typical beginner's syntax issues,
that causes a shell to give cryptic error messages.
* To point out and clarify typical intermediate level semantic problems,
that causes a shell to behave strangely and counter-intuitively.
* To point out subtle caveats, corner cases and pitfalls,
that may cause an advanced user's otherwise working script to fail under
future circumstances.
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ShellCheck can output gcc style error messages and checkstyle compatible xml,
which allows any editor to show inlined error messages.
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It's also supported directly by Syntastic in Vim and Flycheck in Emacs.
- why is this package useful/relevant?
is it a dependency for another package?
==> no
do you use it?
==> I want to *start* using it regularly.
You can try shellcheck online: http://www.shellcheck.net/
I was idly considering running it on all the scripts in Debian
and filing gazillions of patch bugs, but I'll probably never do
it. :-)
if there are other packages providing similar functionality,
how does it compare?
==> AFAIK the closest thing to this in Debian is checkbashisms,
which addresses a different issue.
Similar functionality exists for *other* languages in Debian,
e.g. perlcritic for perl.
- how do you plan to maintain it?
==> No, I don't have the time or resources.
I'm hoping the Haskell team can maintain it with near-zero effort.
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