Bug#923589: lintian: Add check to complain about <project> filename in debian/watch
Package: lintian
Version: 2.9.1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
dh_make generates the following template for Github-based projects:
# GitHub hosted projects
#opts="filenamemangle=s%(?:.*?)?v?(\d[\d.]*)\.tar\.gz%<project>-$1.tar.gz%" \
# https://github.com/<user>/#PACKAGE#/tags \
# (?:.*?/)?v?(\d[\d.]*)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate
I just came across a package where the "<project>" bit had not been
edited. I can't think of anybody who wants filenames consisting of shell
metacharacters appearing in his working directories, so there might as
well be a Lintian check for that.
Cheers,
-Hilko
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