Uploads to the mentors page are checked by a live version of [debexpo] which has its own 'todos' and bug reports on [salsa]. On the public web site of the repository, left hand pane, you find the entry `Plan` and then `Work items`. Filed September 23, 2025 by Xiyue Deng is the the still open ticket that mentors.debian.net does not support the current syntax 5.[1]
One plausible reason for this can be that the mentors page relies on Debian 13/trixie stable. At time this was published, d/watch syntax 5 was not yet adopted. Indeed I found an announce in lines of "d/watch version 5 can be tested" on https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/08/msg00143.html (by [2025-08-14 Thu]), which is after trixie was released as stable ([2025-08-09 Sat], https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809) Since this ticket still is open here, and the repository shows displays activity (commit `2cd665e8` by Mattia Rizzolo on July 21, 2026), my interpretation is that this ticket still is "open". I don't know if there is an additional ticket elsewhere because it is not "a usual package" which is listed by https://tracker.debian.org/ - thus, a query by `reportbug`likely will fail. Best regards, Norwid Behrnd [debexpo]: https://wiki.debian.org/Debexpo [salsa]: https://salsa.debian.org/mentors.debian.net-team/debexpo [1] https://salsa.debian.org/mentors.debian.net-team/debexpo/-/work_items/175
