Bug#1106391: Consolidate package-contains-usr-unmerged-pathnames and aliased-location

[Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.122.0
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: helmut@subdivi.de, josh@joshtriplett.org

Hi,

it appears we have to tags which are basically about the same issue

https://lintian.debian.org/tags/aliased-location
Implemented by Helmut in https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/524


and

https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag/package-contains-usr-unmerged-pathnames
Implemented by Josh in https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/128


Imho we should consolidate those two tags as I find it confusing /
unnecessary to have two tags which appear to do mostly the same.

One noticeable difference is that aliased-location also flags aliased
locations, so it appears like a superset of
package-contains-usr-unmerged-pathnames.
Maybe we should just drop package-contains-usr-unmerged-pathnames then
or is there value in keeping it?


I've CCed both Josh and Helmut for their input.


Regards,
Michael