How to help with fixing debian/watch files

How to write a good debian/watch file

See "man uscan".

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

How to test the debian/watch file

By example pqiv 0.12-1:

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

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

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

List of debian/watch files with temporary or permanent problems

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.