Package: lintian Version: 2.123.0 Severity: minor Hi,
I think that the tag 'debian-watch-file-in-native-package' should be removed. Having a watch file is a native package is useful in case the Debian maintainer is the upstream maintainer (or the Debian packaging is maintained directly with the upstream software), but the software is also distributed outside of Debian (e.g. through GitHub releases or external repositories like Pypi). In that case the watch file allows detecting when the latest GitHub release is more recent than the Debian package. 'diffoscope' is a good example of software in that case. Looking at affected packages[1], more than 50% override this tag already, which is a good indication that it is not relevant. The remaining ones look like they should override it as well. https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag/debian-watch-file-in-native-package?affected=yes Also the mention of DEHS in the tag description is outdated: DEHS does not exist anymore, it is replaced by UDD, and UDD processes watch files in native packages. (but if the tag is removed, no need to fix the tag's description :-) ) Lucas -- System Information: Debian Release: 13.0 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'bookworm-fasttrack') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.12.35+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii appstream 1.0.5-1 ii binutils 2.44-3 ii bzip2 1.0.8-6 ii diffstat 1.67-1 ii dpkg 1.22.21 ii dpkg-dev 1.22.21 ii file 1:5.46-5 ii gettext 0.23.1-2 ii gpg 2.4.7-21+b3 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.6 ii iso-codes 4.18.0-1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.42 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1 ii libberkeleydb-perl 0.66-1 ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.50-1 ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-4+b5 ii libclone-perl 0.47-1+b1 ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.30-1 ii libconst-fast-perl 0.014-2 ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.39-1 ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.60-1 ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.15-1 ii libdata-validate-uri-perl 0.07-3 ii libdevel-size-perl 0.84-1+b1 pn libdigest-sha-perl <none> ii libdpkg-perl 1.22.21 ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.05-1+b4 ii libencode-perl 3.21-1+b2 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.09-2 ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-4 ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-2 ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-3 ii libhtml-tokeparser-simple-perl 3.16-4 ii libio-interactive-perl 1.027-1 ii libipc-run3-perl 0.049-1 ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004008-1 ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-2 ii liblist-someutils-perl 0.59-1 ii liblist-utilsby-perl 0.12-2 ii libmldbm-perl 2.05-4 ii libmoo-perl 2.005005-1 ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-2 ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-2 ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.148-1 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.20-1+b4 ii libperlio-utf8-strict-perl 0.010-1+b3 ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.636-1+b3 ii libregexp-wildcards-perl 1.05-3 ii libsereal-decoder-perl 5.004+ds-1+b3 ii libsereal-encoder-perl 5.004+ds-1+b3 ii libsort-versions-perl 1.62-3 ii libsyntax-keyword-try-perl 0.30-1+b1 ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.38-2+b4 ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-5+b4 ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.18-1 ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.9-2+b1 ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-2 ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-2+b4 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-2 ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-3 ii liburi-perl 5.30-1 ii libwww-mechanize-perl 2.19-1 ii libwww-perl 6.78-1 ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0207+dfsg+really+2.0134-5+b2 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.903.0+ds-1 ii lzip [lzip-decompressor] 1.25-3 ii lzop 1.04-2 ii man-db 2.13.1-1 ii patchutils 0.4.2-1 ii perl [libversion-perl] 5.40.1-6 ii plzip [lzip-decompressor] 1.12-3 ii t1utils 1.41-4 ii unzip 6.0-29 ii xz-utils 5.8.1-1 lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch 2.44-3 ii libtext-template-perl 1.61-1 -- no debconf information
