Add no_wildcard_variable_use and publish

[natebosch]

Closes #832

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Package	Version	Status	Publish tag (post-merge)
package:args	2.8.0	ready to publish	args-v2.8.0
package:async	2.13.1-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:characters	1.4.1	already published at pub.dev
package:collection	1.20.0-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:convert	3.1.3-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:crypto	3.0.7	already published at pub.dev
package:fixnum	1.2.0-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:lints	6.1.0	ready to publish	lints-v6.1.0
package:logging	1.3.1-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:os_detect	2.0.4-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:path	1.9.2-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:platform	3.1.7-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)
package:typed_data	1.4.1-wip	WIP (no publish necessary)

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[leafpetersen]

LGTM, thanks!

[goderbauer]

In the past we've considered it a breaking change to add lints (because it can surface new warnings that may break people's CI) and the policy was to do major version bump for those. Did the policy change?

FWIW, I can't find this written down in the lints package, but we documented it on the flutter_lints package:

Adding a lint to the package may create new warnings for existing users and is therefore considered to be a breaking change, which will require a major version bump.

[natebosch]

Did the policy change?

Not officially. Future publishes should follow the old procedure.
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