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Bug#1114873: marked as done (lintian: remove tag debian-watch-file-in-native-package)

Your message dated Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:35:33 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1114873: fixed in lintian 2.125.0
has caused the Debian Bug report #1114873,
regarding lintian: remove tag debian-watch-file-in-native-package
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: lintian
Version: 2.123.0
Severity: minor

Hi,

I think that the tag 'debian-watch-file-in-native-package' should be
removed.

Having a watch file is a native package is useful in case the Debian
maintainer is the upstream maintainer (or the Debian packaging is
maintained directly with the upstream software), but the software is
also distributed outside of Debian (e.g. through GitHub releases or
external repositories like Pypi). In that case the watch file allows
detecting when the latest GitHub release is more recent than the Debian
package.

'diffoscope' is a good example of software in that case.

Looking at affected packages[1], more than 50% override this tag
already, which is a good indication that it is not relevant. The
remaining ones look like they should override it as well.

https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag/debian-watch-file-in-native-package?affected=yes

Also the mention of DEHS in the tag description is outdated: DEHS does
not exist anymore, it is replaced by UDD, and UDD processes watch files
in native packages. (but if the tag is removed, no need to fix the
tag's description :-) )

Lucas



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'bookworm-fasttrack')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.12.35+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  appstream                       1.0.5-1
ii  binutils                        2.44-3
ii  bzip2                           1.0.8-6
ii  diffstat                        1.67-1
ii  dpkg                            1.22.21
ii  dpkg-dev                        1.22.21
ii  file                            1:5.46-5
ii  gettext                         0.23.1-2
ii  gpg                             2.4.7-21+b3
ii  intltool-debian                 0.35.0+20060710.6
ii  iso-codes                       4.18.0-1
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                 0.1.42
ii  libarchive-zip-perl             1.68-1
ii  libberkeleydb-perl              0.66-1
ii  libcapture-tiny-perl            0.50-1
ii  libclass-xsaccessor-perl        1.19-4+b5
ii  libclone-perl                   0.47-1+b1
ii  libconfig-tiny-perl             2.30-1
ii  libconst-fast-perl              0.014-2
ii  libcpanel-json-xs-perl          4.39-1
ii  libdata-dpath-perl              0.60-1
ii  libdata-validate-domain-perl    0.15-1
ii  libdata-validate-uri-perl       0.07-3
ii  libdevel-size-perl              0.84-1+b1
pn  libdigest-sha-perl              <none>
ii  libdpkg-perl                    1.22.21
ii  libemail-address-xs-perl        1.05-1+b4
ii  libencode-perl                  3.21-1+b2
ii  libfile-basedir-perl            0.09-2
ii  libfile-find-rule-perl          0.34-4
ii  libfont-ttf-perl                1.06-2
ii  libhtml-html5-entities-perl     0.004-3
ii  libhtml-tokeparser-simple-perl  3.16-4
ii  libio-interactive-perl          1.027-1
ii  libipc-run3-perl                0.049-1
ii  libjson-maybexs-perl            1.004008-1
ii  liblist-compare-perl            0.55-2
ii  liblist-someutils-perl          0.59-1
ii  liblist-utilsby-perl            0.12-2
ii  libmldbm-perl                   2.05-4
ii  libmoo-perl                     2.005005-1
ii  libmoox-aliases-perl            0.001006-2
ii  libnamespace-clean-perl         0.27-2
ii  libpath-tiny-perl               0.148-1
ii  libperlio-gzip-perl             0.20-1+b4
ii  libperlio-utf8-strict-perl      0.010-1+b3
ii  libproc-processtable-perl       0.636-1+b3
ii  libregexp-wildcards-perl        1.05-3
ii  libsereal-decoder-perl          5.004+ds-1+b3
ii  libsereal-encoder-perl          5.004+ds-1+b3
ii  libsort-versions-perl           1.62-3
ii  libsyntax-keyword-try-perl      0.30-1+b1
ii  libterm-readkey-perl            2.38-2+b4
ii  libtext-levenshteinxs-perl      0.03-5+b4
ii  libtext-markdown-discount-perl  0.18-1
ii  libtext-xslate-perl             3.5.9-2+b1
ii  libtime-duration-perl           1.21-2
ii  libtime-moment-perl             0.44-2+b4
ii  libtimedate-perl                2.3300-2
ii  libunicode-utf8-perl            0.62-3
ii  liburi-perl                     5.30-1
ii  libwww-mechanize-perl           2.19-1
ii  libwww-perl                     6.78-1
ii  libxml-libxml-perl              2.0207+dfsg+really+2.0134-5+b2
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl            0.903.0+ds-1
ii  lzip [lzip-decompressor]        1.25-3
ii  lzop                            1.04-2
ii  man-db                          2.13.1-1
ii  patchutils                      0.4.2-1
ii  perl [libversion-perl]          5.40.1-6
ii  plzip [lzip-decompressor]       1.12-3
ii  t1utils                         1.41-4
ii  unzip                           6.0-29
ii  xz-utils                        5.8.1-1

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii  binutils-multiarch     2.44-3
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.61-1

-- no debconf information

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Source: lintian
Source-Version: 2.125.0
Done: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>

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 1114873@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org> (supplier of updated lintian package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:36:56 -0400
Source: lintian
Architecture: source
Version: 2.125.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
Closes: 1114873
Changes:
 lintian (2.125.0) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Louis-Philippe Véronneau ]
   * fix typo in the uses-gbp-conf tag
   * salsa-ci: re-enable backports build tests
 .
   [ intrigeri ]
   * obsolete-packages: Deprecate libany-moose-perl
 .
   [ William Desportes ]
   * Fix jquery-validation package name
 .
   [ Yadd ]
   * Replace deprecated uglifyjs by terser in test and related dependencies
 .
   [ Otto Kekäläinen ]
   * New classification tag: uses-gbp-conf
   * Misc documentation improvements
 .
   [ Nilesh Patra ]
   * Remove debian-watch-file-in-native-package tag (Closes: #1114873)
   * Update OldStable Epoch after trixie release
   * Add fields in source-fields that are added by tag2upload
 .
   [ Samuel Thibault ]
   * Add "unreleased" release
 .
   [ Alexandre Detiste ]
   * remove removed makefile fragments from list
 .
   [ Emanuele Rocca ]
   * Mention StaticLinking wiki page for go programs
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