Contributing
============
Philosophy
----------
The fixers in lintian-brush should be as simple as possible. They don't have to
deal with version control, and can just give up and have their changes reverted
for them (by exiting with a non-zero exit code).
Fixers should be as fast as possible when they do not find anything to fix, since
this is the common case.
Coding Style
------------
lintian-brush uses PEP8 as its coding style.
Code style can be checked by running ``flake8``:
```shell
flake8
```
Tests
-----
To run the testsuite, use:
```shell
python3 -m unittest lintian_brush.tests.test_suite
```
or simply:
```shell
make check
```
To run the tests for a specific-fixer, run something like:
```shell
make check-fixer-ancient-maintscript-entry
```
The tests are also run by the package build and autopkgtest.
