Bioconda has a linting checker that you run with "bioconda-utils lint --git-range master"...but it assumes that your local branch was cloned from their original repository and will not work if you fork it.
@benfulton I ran into the same thing recently and found that if I use --packages <package name of the recipe I just added> instead of --git-range it will work with my fork.
Ben Fulton
Gregg Thomas