Bug#1001458: lintian: tag prefer-uscan-symlink has bad name and may be wrong
Package: lintian
Version: 2.114.0
Severity: normal
Hi,
1 - the `prefer-uscan-symlink` recommends `USCAN_SYMLINK=rename` so it
should be named `prefer-uscan-rename`
2 - `USCAN_SYMLINK=rename` is a local parameter while `filenamemangle`
is shared in the team. When working with a MUT, missing
filenamemangle could break uscan (especially with GitHub where all
files are named v<version>.tar.gz). And when working in parallel with
different packages, uscan may overwrite a previously downloaded file
if GitHub + same_version
That's why I think this tag shoud be removed.
Cheers,
Yadd
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