debian/changelog

+commons-text (1.8-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Bumping Standards-Version (no changes).
+  * Adding a watch file.
+
+ -- Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org>  Mon, 04 Nov 2019 03:07:41 -0500
+
 commons-text (1.8-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Initial release (Closes: #943314)

debian/control

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Build-Depends:
 Build-Depends-Indep:
  libcommons-lang3-java,
  libmaven-bundle-plugin-java,
-Standards-Version: 4.2.1
+Standards-Version: 4.4.1
 Rules-Requires-Root: no
 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/commons-text.git
 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/commons-text

debian/watch

+version=4
+opts=uversionmangle=s/-RC/~rc/ \
+https://github.com/apache/commons-text/releases .*/(?:.*?)([\d\.]+(?:-RC\d+)?)\.tar\.gz