Package: lintian-brush
Version: 0.166
Severity: normal

Hi,

I guess this example might be sufficient:

$ git show 3d5fe8375
commit 3d5fe83758243304f00e831d7d9a45c15ee9118c
Author: Andreas Tille <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Feb 9 15:58:17 2026 +0100

    Update watch file format version to 4.
    
    Changes-By: lintian-brush
    Fixes: lintian: obsolete-debian-watch-file-standard
    See-also: 
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/obsolete-debian-watch-file-standard.html

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 37be7d20..566bd8d5 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ cppreference-doc (20170409-2.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * Standards-Version: 4.7.3 (routine-update)
   * Remove Priority field to comply with Debian Policy 4.7.3 (routine-
     update)
+  * Update watch file format version to 4.
 
  -- Andreas Tille <[email protected]>  Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:06:17 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/watch b/debian/watch
index 56513e6a..1d36aa1c 100644
--- a/debian/watch
+++ b/debian/watch
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+version=4
 Version: 5
 
 Template: Github


Please to not do this on version=5 watch files.

Thank you for your work on lintian-brush in any case
   Andreas.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (50, 'buildd-unstable'), (50, 'unstable'), (5, 
'experimental'), (1, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.17.13+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=de_DE:de
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages lintian-brush depends on:
ii  devscripts      2.26.5
ii  libc6           2.42-11+b1
ii  libgcc-s1       15.2.0-12
ii  libgmp10        2:6.3.0+dfsg-5+b1
ii  libhogweed6t64  3.10.2-1
ii  liblzma5        5.8.2-2
ii  libnettle8t64   3.10.2-1
ii  libpython3.13   3.13.11-1+b1
ii  libssl3t64      3.5.5-1
ii  python3-breezy  3.3.17-3+b1

Versions of packages lintian-brush recommends:
ii  debhelper  13.29
ii  decopy     0.2.4.9-0.1
ii  dos2unix   7.5.2-1
ii  gpg        2.4.8-5
ii  lintian    2.129.0

Versions of packages lintian-brush suggests:
ii  brz-debian         2.8.80
ii  git-buildpackage   0.9.39
ii  po-debconf         1.0.22
ii  postgresql-common  288

-- no debconf information

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