Bug#1113722: debian/watch version 5
"Andrea Pappacoda" <[email protected]> Tue, 02 Sep 2025 10:26:28 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.devel.quality-assurance |
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On Tue Sep 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM CEST, Marc Haber wrote: > It would be nice if uscan would recognize both version= and Version:. > It currently gets confused and falls back to more ancient versions, > giving misleading error messages, when one accidentally starts a v5 > file with "version=5", which is an easy mistake when editing. So a v5 file with `version=5` instead of `Version: 5` would be valid? It's a bit odd, considering all other keys follow the conventional deb822 format. Maybe improving the error message would be an equally good solution.