Package: devscripts
Version: 2.25.19
Severity: minor

Hi,

The UDD 'upstream' gatherer, that relies on uscan and debian/watch to
check for new releases, works in two steps:

  1/ for each source package, it extracts debian/watch (and now
  debian/upstream/metadata) and stores them in a database table

  2/ on a regular basis, it extracts those files from the DB and runs
  uscan with "--package x --upstream-version y"

Unfortunately, that does not work with packages without watch files,
because --package implies --watchfile.

I worked around this in UDD by creating a fake debian/changelog, but it's
probably worth fixing in uscan anyway.

Lucas

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