diff -Nru devscripts-2.19.7/debian/changelog devscripts-2.19.7ubuntu1/debian/changelog
--- devscripts-2.19.7/debian/changelog	2019-10-17 14:24:54.000000000 +0000
+++ devscripts-2.19.7ubuntu1/debian/changelog	2019-10-18 21:34:49.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+devscripts (2.19.7ubuntu1) focal; urgency=medium
+
+  * Temporarily disable the pylint test, that is broken with py3.8.
+
+ -- Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>  Fri, 18 Oct 2019 23:34:49 +0200
+
 devscripts (2.19.7) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   [ Joao Eriberto Mota Filho ]
diff -Nru devscripts-2.19.7/scripts/devscripts/test/test_pylint.py devscripts-2.19.7ubuntu1/scripts/devscripts/test/test_pylint.py
--- devscripts-2.19.7/scripts/devscripts/test/test_pylint.py	2019-08-17 21:28:27.000000000 +0000
+++ devscripts-2.19.7ubuntu1/scripts/devscripts/test/test_pylint.py	2019-10-18 21:34:25.000000000 +0000
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 CONFIG = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "pylint.conf")
 
 
+@unittest.skip("pylint is broken with python3.8 https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/2737")
 class PylintTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
     """
     This unittest class provides a test that runs the pylint code check