expand the issue template for new lints #15336
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When I first tried contributing to clippy, I encountered the problem that a lot of lint suggestions overlapped with existing lints, so I would spend a bunch of time implementing something only to figure out it wasn't actually needed. The "comparison with existing lints" field should hopefully reduce this somewhat, while not incresing the burden of requesting a new lint too much due to not being mandatory.
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When I first tried contributing to clippy,
I encountered the problem that a lot of lint suggestions overlapped with existing lints, so I would spend a bunch of time implementing something only to figure out it wasn't actually needed.
The "comparison with existing lints" field should hopefully reduce this somewhat, while not incresing the burden of
requesting a new lint too much due to not being mandatory.
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