From: tille@debian.org
Package: lintian-brush
Version: 0.166
Severity: normal
Hi,
I guess this example might be sufficient:
$ git show 3d5fe8375
commit 3d5fe83758243304f00e831d7d9a45c15ee9118c
Author: Andreas Tille
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-wa
ch-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 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),
ANGUAGE=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
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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