Changing the user agent in get-upstream-version.pl to the Firefox one fixes this problem
--- get-upstream-version(1).pl 2016-07-15 16:04:48.749385098 +0200 +++ get-upstream-version.pl 2016-07-15 16:09:09.439475962 +0200 @@ -31,8 +31,7 @@ { local $/ = undef; - my $user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux $arch; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.2+ (KHTML, like Gecko)" - ." Version/5.0 Safari/531.2+ Debian/squeeze (2.30.6-1) Epiphany/2.30.6"; + my $user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0"; open INPUT, "wget --no-check-certificate --tries=1 --user-agent=\"$user_agent\" -nv -qO - $url |" or die; $page = <INPUT>;