I met this false positive message, too. But in different case. I got the message when debian/watch is like:
==== opts="repack,compression=xz, \ dversionmangle=s/\+ds\d*$//,repacksuffix=+ds, \ .... ==== And lintian is happy when dversionmangle line moves to the 1st line: ==== opts="repack,compression=xz,dversionmangle=s/\+ds\d*$//,repacksuffix=+ds, \ .... ==== Cheers, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo PGP/GPG: 17B3ACB1

