Another workaround is to us the 'downloadurlmangle' option to map a discovered 'tags' url to the expected 'releases' link.
>From the sirikali package: version=4 opts=downloadurlmangle=s/archive\/refs\/tags\/(.*)\.tar\.gz/releases\/download\/$1\/@PACKAGE@-$1\.tar\.xz/,\ pgpsigurlmangle=s/$/.asc/,\ dversionmangle=s/\+dfsg1//,repacksuffix=+dfsg1 \ https://github.com/mhogomchungu/@PACKAGE@/tags \ /mhogomchungu/@PACKAGE@/archive/refs/tags/(.*)\.tar\.gz Note that this watch file is looking for a '.xz' release file and .xz.asc signature file. The pre-existing pgpsigurlmangle continued to work after the change. -- AE0D BF5A 92A5 ADE4 9481 BA6F 8A31 71EF 3661 50CE