On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 08:40:41PM +0000, Norwid Behrnd wrote: > 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.
reverting back to version 4 does appease mentors (thanks) > 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 > > -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> https://invisible-island.net
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