update debian/watch to v5 format with GitLab template

Use GitLab template rather than GitHub since upstream development
happens at https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk

https://github.com/Kitware/VTK is just a mirror of the gitlab repo.

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 1ce7e1b1aa989d2b968288e36edcd0dffa65f892..cbe6eaa506112925a6841c2d7a0c80dea601460b 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ vtk9 (9.5.2+dfsg3-7) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * add hurd-amd64 to list of architectures supporting adios2
     in Build-Depends: libadios2-mpi-c++-dev
     (adios2 now builds on all 64-bit architectures)
+  * update debian/watch to v5 format. Use GitLab template rather than
+    GitHub since upstream development happens at
+    https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk
+    https://github.com/Kitware/VTK is just a mirror of the gitlab repo.
 
  -- Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>  Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:14:13 +0100
 

diff --git a/debian/watch b/debian/watch
index 65f01a205fcc904842027130de71c7958f938e81..42821bfc66f62ab82cf0a8304a89b51273509ee7 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/watch
+++ b/debian/watch
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
-version=4
-opts=repacksuffix=+dfsg1,uversionmangle=s/(\d)[_\.\-\+]?((RC|rc|pre|dev|beta|alpha|b|a)\d*)$/$1~$2/,dversionmangle=s/\+(debian|dfsg|ds|deb)\d*$// \
-https://github.com/Kitware/VTK/tags .*/v?(9\.\d\S*)\.(?:tgz|tbz2|txz|tar\.(?:gz|bz2|xz))
+Version: 5
+
+Template: GitLab
+Dist: https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk
+Repacksuffix: +dfsg1
+Dversion-Mangle: auto