Bug#973637: flag debian/watch files that use older versions of the format

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Control: tags -1 + pending

Hi yadd,

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 6:29 AM Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> wrote:
>
> 1. We could have a "info" lintian tag for version 3, deprecated but
> compatible with version 4. But version 2 is really deprecated and it's
> not easy to maintain uscan with 4 versions (It took me a lot of hours to
> rewrite old uscan to modern Perl-OO).
> That's why I'd like to see a "error" tag for version ≤ 2.

For some reason, there was no autocommit message from our web hook.
Lintian errors are really for matters that warrant rejection from FTP
Master. This matter is not quite so serious, so it's a warning (for
now):

https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/05ea5176216d2f05704481f8d3467bcd86d8d0e9

Kind regards
Felix Lechner