[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1091922: routine-update: Consider using `debputy reformat`

[Niels Thykier]

Package: routine-update
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: niels at thykier.net



The `debputy reformat` tool can be run on all packages, apply their 
maintainer's style or gracefully back out if none can be detected. The 
full command your use case would be something like:

   debputy reformat \
     --auto-fix \
     --unknown-or-unsupported-style-is-ok \
     --no-linter-exit-code > /dev/null

In many cases, it would do nothing. But if the maintainer has selected a 
style via `X-Style` or via the salsa-ci pipeline, then that command will 
apply the style. You can use `--linter-exit-code` (instead of 
`--no-linter-exit-code`) if you want to use the exit code to tell if 
something was changed or not.

You can try the command on `debhelper` (has a style) vs. `phalanx` (does 
not have a style) to see the difference.

Unlike `wrap-and-sort`, it does not rewrite the style by default. Though 
if that behavior is desired, `debputy reformat --style black` is an 
option (though I would recommend that routine-update then add the 
`X-Style: black` field instead, so `debputy reformat` does the right 
thing out of the box).

Dependencies: `apt-get install -y debputy-lsp`

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