Package: lintian Version: 2.114.0 Severity: minor The relatively new prefer-uscan-symlink tag suggests it's better to rely on a setting ~/.devscripts instead of using filenamemangle in debian/watch.
It's not clear why this would be better in any case and the uscan man page that is referenced doesn't suggest it, but even if it is better for some general reason, it's not better for packages maintained by multiple people. As a general case, correct package updating should not depend on non-default local setups. Doing apt source, changing into the package directory, and running uscan should work. I think it would probably be best to remove this tag entirely. If there is a sufficient rationale to keep it, that should be added to the tag description so developers can understand why. In any case, suggest you skip this check for packages that have an uploaders field in debian/control. Making a change to address this tag is sure to cause confusion for team maintained packages. Scott K
