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Bug#895023: lintian: Please add a pedantic warning for get-orig-source targets



On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 11:55:38AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Please add a pedantic warning for get-orig-source targets: From
> Policy 4.1.4:
> 
>   4.9
>     The ``get-orig-source`` rules target has been removed.  Packages
>     should use ``debian/watch`` and uscan instead.

Please don't.
Whilst the upgrade checklist says "should use d/watch instead", the
actual policy simply removed the 'get-orig-source' paragraph, therefore
simply that target is not standardized anymore.  And as you probably
guess maintainer can put whatever target they want in their d/rules :)


I would be fine with such pedantic tag if lintian checked for e.g.
get-orig-source targets that only call uscan, those are idiotic for me.

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