Lintian tag: symlink-target-in-tmp

Type: error

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

Packages must not set links with targets pointing into /tmp or /var/tmp.
The File Hierarchy Standard specifies that such files may be removed by
the administrator and that programs may not depend on any files in /tmp
being preserved across invocations, which combined mean that it makes no
sense to ship files in these directories.

Please refer to /tmp : Temporary files (Section 3.18) in the Filesystem
Hierarchy Standard and /var/tmp : Temporary files preserved between system
reboots (Section 5.15) in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard for details.

Visibility: error
Show-Always: no
Check: files/symbolic-links

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