- Package:
- devscripts
- Source:
- devscripts
- Description:
- scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier
- Submitter:
- Julien Plissonneau Duquène
- Date:
- 2026-02-20 12:27:02 UTC
- Severity:
- normal
Dear Maintainers, uscan currently issues the following warning when a v5 d/watch file contains a paragraph that is entirely commented out: ``` uscan warn: The following paragraph isn't well formatted, skipping it: << ==EOF== # Previously (before 1.2.0): #Source: https://github.com/codehaus/jaxen/tags #Dversion-Mangle: s/~beta/-beta-/ #Uversion-Mangle: s/_/./g" #Matching-Pattern: .*/V_([\d_]+)_Final.tar.gz ==EOF== ``` Here are the contents of debian/watch: ``` Version: 5 Source: https://github.com/jaxen-xpath/jaxen.git Matching-Pattern: refs/tags/v@ANY_VERSION@ Git-Mode: full Mode: git # Previously (before 1.2.0): #Source: https://github.com/codehaus/jaxen/tags #Dversion-Mangle: s/~beta/-beta-/ #Uversion-Mangle: s/_/./g" #Matching-Pattern: .*/V_([\d_]+)_Final.tar.gz ``` I believe no warning should be emitted in such cases. Best regards, --- /etc/devscripts.conf --- Empty.--- ~/.devscripts --- Not present
Hi Yadd, Have you seen #1114473 (and duplicate #1127829)? Seems watch file v5 does not properly disregard comments lines starting with a #. According to the man page it should ignore them: https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/devscripts/debian-watch.5.en.html I also saw this in src:mariadb: dpkg -l devscripts ii devscripts 2.26.5 uscan uscan warn: The following paragraph isn't well formatted, skipping it: << ==EOF== # String "-11.8." needs to be in path as MariaDB releases several series in # parallel (e.g 11.4, 10.11, 10.4, 10.3 etc) and uscan should check for updates # only in the 11.8-series. # # Specifically use archive.mariadb.org because it supports https and the main # page has a file listing suitable for scanning new releases. # The archive.mariadb.org service is under MariaDB Foundation control and is the # official source for new releases. ==EOF==