MNT: The pandoc recipe has some lint :(

[conda-forge-admin]

This is the friendly conda-forge-admin automated user.

I've ran the conda-smithy linter and found some lint in this feedstock 😢.

Here is what I have got:

• The recipe must have a build/number section.

Thanks!

[pelson]

This script may be misbehaving 😉

[ocefpaf]

This script may be misbehaving 😉

Does the script use the feedstocks repository?

[jankatins]

BTW: would it be possible to build a webpage which has all the lints and explains why this is necessary? E.g. in this case it's missing the number, but I don't know why I should add it because usually at this state there will only be one package version for each pandoc version.

[pelson]

Does the script use the feedstocks repository?

No, it is cloning each of the feedstocks locally without that repo (I've generally avoided making that the canonical source of these scripts). All that is missing is that I'm not pulling any subsequent changes after they have been merged onto the upstream feedstock.

would it be possible to build a webpage which has all the lints and explains why this is necessary

Sure. We could even start with a wiki in https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-smithy if you like. Of course, there are always issue comments and gitter to get feedback on specific cases.

[jakirkham]

Could be compiled into these docs ( conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io#95 ).

[jankatins]

@jakirkham That doc looks nice, that's enough for me here (although it also does not explain why its better to include a build number :-) ).

[jakirkham]

Yeah, we should start having some sort of PEP system or probably something way less formal for linter proposals.

In any event, I think the rationale is this just makes life simpler. We tell people to set this number back to 0 on updating in the Readme. Keeping it always makes that compliant with the instructions.

Also, some people are entering conda-forge that know nothing about conda so they don't know where this number goes. If we just have it out of the gate (even if it is just the default), it is easy to find and change when needed.

[pelson]

Pandoc no longer has any lint. 👍