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  Msg # 261 of 1194 on ZZLI4422, Thursday 9-03-25, 1:16  
  From: ANDREA PAPPACODA  
  To: MARC HABER  
  Subj: Re: debian/watch version 5  
 XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist 
 From: tachi@debian.org 
  
 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. 
  
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