#1151915 uscan: '500 Header line too long (limit is 8192)' error for GitHub URLs

#1151915#5
Date:
2026-10-24 12:31:00 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

uscan in trixie (and sid) started to fail on watchfiles with GitHub URLs:

 uscan warn: In watchfile debian/watch, reading webpage
https://github.com/osmcode/osmium-tool/releases failed: 500 Header line too long (limit is 8192)

This is fixed by removing the limit per the attached patch.

Note that the patch has already been pushed to the trixie & master branches on Salsa.

Kind Regards,

Bas

#1151915#10
Date:
2026-10-26 16:10:40 UTC
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Control: forcemerge -1 1151876
Control: found -1 2.26.13

Hi, I am merging this bug report with #1151876, which is about the same
thing, but reported against 2.26.13.
not 'master' (although there is a master branch), that is why I did not
find it. When comitting to 'main' branch keep in mind that changelog
will be build by dch when maintainers decide its time for a release.
I would use a message with a closes: #1151915 line and word 'uscan' in
commit title.

(I am not uscan maintaner, just an occasional contributor.)

Regards,