debian/changelog

+libreadline-java (0.8.0.1+dfsg-8) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Team upload.
+  * Don't install the NEWS file in libreadline-java-doc (Closes: #898380)
+  * Mangle the package version in debian/watch
+
+ -- Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>  Sun, 13 May 2018 01:29:20 +0200
+
 libreadline-java (0.8.0.1+dfsg-7) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Team upload.

debian/libreadline-java-doc.docs

 api
 README
 README.1st
-NEWS
 TODO

debian/watch

 version=4
-opts="repack,compression=xz,uversionmangle=s/_/./g" \
+opts="repack,compression=xz,uversionmangle=s/_/./g,dversionmangle=s/\+dfsg.*//g" \
 https://github.com/aclemons/java-readline/tags .*/archive/(?:v|R_)([\d\._]+).tar.gz