diff --git a/scripts/packages-formatter.py b/scripts/packages-formatter.py
index 84fa27ca65..45e6f44027 100755
--- a/scripts/packages-formatter.py
+++ b/scripts/packages-formatter.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ _autobuild_env=os.environ.copy()
 # Coerce stdout encoding to utf-8 as cygwin's will be detected as cp1252 otherwise.
 _autobuild_env["PYTHONIOENCODING"] = "utf-8"
 
-pkg_line=re.compile('^([\w-]+):\s+(.*)$')
+pkg_line=re.compile(r'^([\w-]+):\s+(.*)$') # <FS:Beq/> make this a raw string top avoid the warning.
 
 def autobuild(*args):
     """