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+pkglint tries to verify the content of a package directory.
+The purpose of pkglint can be separated into two parts:
+ (1) to let the submitters easily polish her/his own package
+ directory, and
+ (2) to decrease the labor of the committers.
+
+pkglint uses very simple regular-expression matching for verifying
+files that make up a package directory. Note that it does NOT implement
+complete parser for those files. Because of this the user may see some
+extra warnings, especially when checking complex Makefiles.