Bug#922544: lintian: Mass tag rename to unify naming convention

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

On Sun, 2019-02-17 at 23:07:50 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> > I'd request that no more such tag names be added, and ideally the
> > current ones be renamed, although the longer they stay the more
> > overrides they might accumulate. :/
> 
> That's my only concern at this point. I mean, there's probably
> countless debian-watch-may-check-gpg-signature overrides.
> 
> I wonder… Lintian could have a small list of aliases used only for
> overrides?

I don't think this is a problem anymore after the renamed-tags support
was added. Which maps the override tag to the new name and does not even
emit a tag of its own for this. I think this is the most inobtrusive way
to handle any such mass rename w/o bothering maintainers about it.

Perhaps it might be nice to eventually emit a pedantic tag or similar,
but I don't think this should be a blocker on any mass tag naming
cleanup TBH.

Thanks,
Guillem