* enable lint unnecessary_new

* fix tests

* fix tests

* fix tests

* Fixes resulting from audit of issues links

I looked at every link to GitHub in our repo. For cases where we had a TODO that was waiting for a bug to be fixed, and the bug has now been fixed, I applied the pending change. For cases where the link was out of date, I updated the link.

* Update run_test.dart

skip this test again since it failed on linux and macos bots

It was causing problems rolling Flutter into Fuchsia

* re-enable lint unnecessary_const

* remove trailling whitespaces

* remove unnecessary const (after merge)

This reverts commit cc1cf13e.