On Wed, 3 Sep 2025 04:12:30 +0200 Guillem Jover <[email protected]> wrote:
Package: devscripts Version: 2.25.19 Severity: wishlistHi! While going over the debian-watch(5) man page noticed several things that seem potentially problematic with the new format, or that changing them now would make them way clearer and easier to read. In any case thanks for the work on this, it seems like a clear improvement over the previous formats! * [...] (I'm not sure how many packages are already using several of these, but I guess these could be switched with aliases, like it has been done recently with similar requests, and adding deprecation warnings for the old names, so that people can easily transition w/o immediately breaking
On that particular note, `debputy` has support for `d/watch` and can rename the fields automatically via `debputy lint --auto-fix` (or `debputy reformat` with `X-Style: black`) once we agree on the new names and `debputy` is updated, which should simplify matters for early adopters.
It already rewrites "dashless" field names into "with dashes" for cases where it is possible, because I had a similar opinion on that matter.
Best regards, Niels
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