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How to help with fixing debian/watch files

Verify whether an updated watch file is already available on the PTS page of the package.
Write a good debian/watch file and test it with uscan.
Add your watch file using one of two methods:
- Upload the watch file using the watch file upload web form. Please include your name, email address and the current date so we can give you credit and or feedback. Your submission will be reviewed by a member of the QA team and accepted, fixed, rewritten or rejected as appropriate.
- Ask bartm@debian.org or another DD from the QA team to add your debian/watch files in qa.debian.org:/srv/qa.debian.org/data/watch/watchfiles. The file names are package_eversion.watch with eversion = version without epoch but with Debian revision. (Read here about epoch and Debian revision.)

See "man uscan".

Check the common mistakes section of the debian/watch page.

By example pqiv 0.12-1:

version=3
https://github.com/phillipberndt/pqiv/downloads .*/pqiv-(.*)\.tbz$

Strip epoch and debian revision from the version. So 1:3.39-1 would become 3.39. In this case 0.12-1 becomes 0.12.
Then use uscan like this (see "man uscan"), and verify whether the status makes sense:

uscan --watchfile watch --package pqiv --upstream-version 0.12 --no-download --verbose

Then use uscan like this (see "man uscan"), and verify whether the link to the upstream file works:

uscan --watchfile watch --package pqiv --upstream-version 0 --no-download --verbose

Here is the list of debian/watch files with temporary or permanent problems : http://qa.debian.org/watch/uscan-errors.txt

More reports are found here.

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- * Ask bartm@debian.org or another DD from the qa team to add your debian/watch files in qa.debian.org:/srv/qa.debian.org/data/watch/watchfiles.  The file names are package_eversion.watch with eversion = version without epoch but with Debian revision.  (Read [[http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version|here]] about epoch and Debian revision.)
+ * Add your watch file using one of two methods:
  * Upload the watch file using the [[http://qa.debian.org/watch/upload/|watch file upload web form]]. Please include your name, email address and the current date so we can give you credit and or feedback. Your submission will be reviewed by a member of the QA team and accepted, fixed, rewritten or rejected as appropriate.
  * Ask bartm@debian.org or another DD from the QA team to add your debian/watch files in qa.debian.org:/srv/qa.debian.org/data/watch/watchfiles.  The file names are package_eversion.watch with eversion = version without epoch but with Debian revision.  (Read [[http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version|here]] about epoch and Debian revision.)