[DRE-maint] Bug#1127665: ruby-chef-utils: function of debian/watch is toggled-off

[Norwid Behrnd]

Package: ruby-chef-utils
Version: 16.12.3-3
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: nbehrnd at yahoo.com

Dear Maintainer,

in the VCS of the team-maintained package, I notice the functionality of file
`debian/watch` is muted.  By `git blame`, this is because of commit `06194da4`
authored by Pirate Praveen on 2021-04-09 15:16:04 +0530.  Thus, `uscan
--verbose --no-download` currently resolves to version of 16.12.3.  With the
first two lines uncommented, the watch file (at `version=4`) identifies version
19.1.164 as the most recent available outside Debian.

The commit message does not detail out the reasons why the watch file was
disabled -- which might be obvious to members of the Debian Ruby Team (which
I'm not).  Perhaps the reasons back in 2021 are no longer valid today, in 2026.

My initial motivation is bug #1123467 which might be affected by this bug
report.  Thus I would like to ask you in advance if provision of an updated
package with a working watch file as a non-maintainer upload were acceptable
for you, or if you prefer an update from with the Debian Ruby Team instead.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.9.10-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

-- no debconf information