#1127829 comments in debian/watch cause uscan warning

Package:
devscripts
Source:
devscripts
Description:
scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier
Submitter:
Marc Haber
Date:
2026-02-20 12:27:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1127829#5
Date:
2026-02-13 16:35:18 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

this is my debian/watch:

Version: 5


Source: https://api.github.com/repos/@PACKAGE@/@PACKAGE@/releases
Matching-Pattern: https://github.com/@PACKAGE@/@PACKAGE@/releases/download/@SEMANTIC_VERSION@/@PACKAGE@-@SEMANTIC_VERSION@@ARCHIVE_EXT@
Search-Mode: plain
Pgpmode: auto

# don't use this. The template will pull synthesized tarballs from
# the git release tag, while upstream does postprocessing after tagging
# and then builds another release tarball.
#Template: GitHub
#Owner: @PACKAGE@
#Project: @PACKAGE@


uscan complains:
uscan warn: The following paragraph isn't well formatted, skipping it: << ==EOF==
# don't use this. The template will pull synthesized tarballs from
# the git release tag, while upstream does postprocessing after tagging
# and then builds another release tarball.
#Template: GitHub
#Owner: @PACKAGE@
#Project: @PACKAGE@
==EOF==


I think it should be allowed to write comments in debian/watch.

Greetings
Marc
--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---
Empty.
--- ~/.devscripts --- DEBUILD_LINTIAN=no DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="parallel=10" DEBUILD_DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_OPTS="-i -I -us -uc -j10" DEBUILT_LINTIAN_OPTS="-i -I --show-overrides" DEBSIGN_KEYID=mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de DEBCHANGE_MULTIMAINT=no BTS_SENDMAIL_COMMAND="/usr/sbin/exim4 -f mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de" BTS_INTERACTIVE=force