To do this, we had to make sure it passes when the changes directory
is empty. I also tried to improve the quality of the output, and
fix some false-positive cases. Let's see how this goes!
Closes ticket 23564.
Found using flake8 which gave the following output;
lintChanges.py:10:13: E225 missing whitespace around operator
lintChanges.py:25:1: E302 expected 2 blank lines, found 1
lintChanges.py:46:5: F841 local variable 'lines' is assigned to but never used
lintChanges.py:52:32: E228 missing whitespace around modulo operator
lintChanges.py:53:11: E201 whitespace after '('
lintChanges.py:56:41: E228 missing whitespace around modulo operator
Part of ticket 21096.
Additional fixes to make the change work;
- fix Python 2 vs 3 issues
- fix some PEP 8 warnings
- handle paths with numbers correctly
- mention the make rule in doc/HACKING.
