Louis-Philippe Véronneau pushed to branch master at lintian / lintian


Commits:
37ec3388 by Guillem Jover at 2026-02-24T02:32:22+01:00
Recommend using debian/watch format 5 with Untrackable field

Instead of recommending using empty format 4 (or earlier) with only
comments explaining the situation for untrackable upstreams, prefer
the declarative and explicit format 5 with its new Untrackable field
support.

- - - - -


1 changed file:

- tags/d/debian-watch-file-is-missing.tag


Changes:

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tags/d/debian-watch-file-is-missing.tag
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@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ Explanation: This source package is not Debian-native but it 
does not have a
  If the package is not maintained upstream or if upstream uses a
  distribution mechanism that cannot be meaningfully monitored by uscan
  and the Debian External Health Status project, please consider adding a
- <code>debian/watch</code> file containing only comments documenting the
- situation.
+ format 5 <code>debian/watch</code> file containing an
+ <code>Untrackable</code> field documenting the situation.



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