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and subject line Bug#1125489: fixed in lintian 2.129.0
has caused the Debian Bug report #1125489,
regarding lintian: debian-watch-not-mangling-version erroneously triggered for
comments on version 5 watch files
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.128.1
Severity: normal
debian-watch-not-mangling-version is erroneously triggered for comments on
version 5 watch files.
For example, the following watch file triggers this lintian tag:
Version: 5
# Upstream provides a PGP signature named libusb1-@[email protected],
# which matches libusb1-@[email protected]. These files are not displayed on
# the typical URL unless JavaScript is enabled, but they are available using the
# API URL.
Source: https://api.github.com/repos/vpelletier/python-libusb1/releases
Matching-Pattern:
https://github.com/vpelletier/python-libusb1/releases/download/\d[\-+\.:\~\da-zA-Z]*/libusb1-@[email protected]
Search-Mode: plain
Dversion-Mangle: auto
Repacksuffix: +ds
Pgp-Sig-Url-Mangle: s/$/.asc/
It triggers on each of the commented lines:
W: python-libusb1 source: debian-watch-not-mangling-version [debian/watch:3]
N:
N: The version of this package contains dfsg, ds, or debian, which normally
indicates that the upstream source has been repackaged to comply with the
Debian Free Software Guidelines (or similar reason), but there is no version
mangling in the
N: debian/watch file. Since the dfsg string is not part of the upstream
version, the debian/watch file should use the dversionmangle option to remove
the dfsg before version number comparison.
N:
N: Please refer to the uscan(1) manual page and https://wiki.debian.org/DEHS
for details.
N:
N: Visibility: warning
N: Show-Always: no
N: Check: debian/watch
N: Renamed from: debian-watch-file-should-mangle-version
N:
N:
W: python-libusb1 source: debian-watch-not-mangling-version [debian/watch:4]
N:
W: python-libusb1 source: debian-watch-not-mangling-version [debian/watch:5]
N:
W: python-libusb1 source: debian-watch-not-mangling-version [debian/watch:6]
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: lintian
Source-Version: 2.129.0
Done: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lintian, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Louis-Philippe Véronneau <[email protected]> (supplier of updated lintian
package)
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Hash: SHA512
Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:19:42 -0500
Source: lintian
Architecture: source
Version: 2.129.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <[email protected]>
Closes: 1012289 1123542 1125489 1126459
Changes:
lintian (2.129.0) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Louis-Philippe Véronneau ]
* d/control: tighten dpkg version restriction and drop other old and
outdated restrictions
* Fix false-positive for orig-tarball-missing-upstream-signature when using
debian/watch v5 files and the gittag mode.
* d/control: Add Nilesh Patra as maintainer. (Closes: #1012289)
* d/control: Standards-Version bump to 4.7.3. Remove redundant 'Priority:
optional' field.
.
[ Aurelien Jarno ]
* hardening-no-fortify-functions: fix detection of IEEE 128-bit long double
.
[ James Addison ]
* Detect embedded minizip usage
.
[ Nilesh Patra ]
* Add new tag "testsuite-restrictions-has-deprecated-skip-not-installable"
(Closes: #1123542)
* Fix compatibility with dpkg >= 1.23.4
* Drop right-to-left-override and colorful (See #1126502)
* Skip d/watch processing on (empty) lines with comments and spaces (Closes:
#1125489)
.
[ Timo Paulssen ]
* Files/Generated: Use SlidingWindow instead of getline
.
[ William Desportes ]
* Fix detecting dh-sequence-{phppear,phpcomposer}, fix
pear-package-without-pkg-php-tools-builddep and
composer-package-without-pkg-php-tools-builddep
.
[ Simon McVittie ]
* obsolete-packages: Add obsolete transitional names for libgd-perl
.
[ Andrius Merkys ]
* Disable pattern metacharacters in surplus_manpages regex to fix unmatched
bracket. Closes: #1126459
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