Hi,

On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 03:15:22PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Package: devscripts
> Version: 2.16.4
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> some upstreams (like sks) ship their tarballs as foo-1.1.5.tgz

True and I was aware of it.

> @ARCHIVE_EXT@ fails to locate this tarball.
> 
> The attached patch should address this concern.

I think it does but I think I had reason why I did not do this.
It may have been something to do with signiture verification.
I forgot what exactly put me off to add such extension ...  

You can always use explicit description in watch file if upstream uses
such extension.

Osamu

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