[Package Request] - ShellCheck

[daniejstriata]

What package is missing from Amazon Linux 2022? Please describe and include package name. ShellCheck

Some packages, like snapd, require ShellCheck to be installed when building the install package. SRC RPM found at https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ShellCheck

The goals of ShellCheck are:

• 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. (upstream)

Is this an update to existing package or new package request? new

Is this package available in Amazon Linux 2? No. EPEL7

Number of users impacted

[daniejstriata]

Missing dependencies

No match for argument: ghc-Cabal-devel
No match for argument: ghc-Diff-prof
No match for argument: ghc-QuickCheck-prof
No match for argument: ghc-aeson-prof
No match for argument: ghc-array-prof
No match for argument: ghc-base-prof
No match for argument: ghc-bytestring-prof
No match for argument: ghc-containers-prof
No match for argument: ghc-deepseq-prof
No match for argument: ghc-directory-prof
No match for argument: ghc-fgl-prof
No match for argument: ghc-filepath-prof
No match for argument: ghc-mtl-prof
No match for argument: ghc-parsec-prof
No match for argument: ghc-process-prof
No match for argument: ghc-regex-tdfa-prof
No match for argument: ghc-rpm-macros
No match for argument: pandoc

[nmeyerhans]

The dependencies are the challenge here, but I agree that shellcheck is important. We'll consider this.

[stewartsmith]

At this point in time, we're not looking at adding Haskell (and thus pandoc, and thus also shellcheck) to AL2023.

Note that if anyone in the community wants to build and maintain packages in their own for AL2023, Fedora COPR does support building AL2023 packages and repos, so using that community infrastructure is a possibility.