Subject: [bug#47804] [PATCH] lint: Warn about underscores in package names.

From: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 18:19:53 +0200

On Thu, 2021-04-15 at 18:00 +0200, Xinglu Chen wrote:
> As per section '16.4.2 Package Naming' in the manual, use hyphens
> instead of underscores in package names.
> 
> * guix/lint.scm (check-name): Check whether the package name contains
> underscores.
> ---
> There was some discussion about this on guix-devel[1], but no consensus
> was reached.  Should we whitelist certain names like “86_64” or something?

I dunno.  Perhaps for now, we can accept that the 'check-name' linter is
sometimes overly strict, and punt the exceptions for later?

> [1]: https://yhetil.org/guix-devel/87v991vkpi.fsf@nckx
> 
>  guix/lint.scm | 23 +++++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/guix/lint.scm b/guix/lint.scm
> index a7d6bbba4f..d5ad69475e 100644
> --- a/guix/lint.scm
> +++ b/guix/lint.scm
> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
>  ;;; Copyright © 2018, 2019 Arun Isaac <[email-masked]>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2020 Chris Marusich <[email-masked]>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2020 Timothy Sample <[email-masked]>
> +;;; Copyright © 2021 Xinglu Chen <[email-masked]>
>  ;;;
>  ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
>  ;;;
> @@ -173,14 +174,20 @@
>  (define (check-name package)
>    "Check whether PACKAGE's name matches our guidelines."
>    (let ((name (package-name package)))
> -    ;; Currently checks only whether the name is too short.
> -    (if (and (<= (string-length name) 1)
> -             (not (string=? name "r"))) ; common-sense exception
> -        (list
> -         (make-warning package
> -                       (G_ "name should be longer than a single character")
> -                       #:field 'name))
> -        '())))
> +    (cond
> +     ;; Currently checks only whether the name is too short.
> +     ((and (<= (string-length name) 1)
> +           (not (string=? name "r"))) ; common-sense exception
> +      (list
> +       (make-warning package
> +                     (G_ "name should be longer than a single character")
> +                     #:field 'name)))
> +     ((string-match "_" name)
> +      (list
> +       (make-warning package
> +                     (G_ "name should use hyphens instead of underscores")
> +                     #:field 'name)))
> +     (else '()))))

I didn't test this, but that seems about right.
Ideally, you should add a corresponding test in tests/lint.scm
(IIRC, maybe the linter tests are elsewhere).

However, Guix is currently in the "string freeze", so this cannot yet be merged,
IIUC.

Greetings,
Maxime.