diff --git a/scripts/verify-dep-lockstep.mjs b/scripts/verify-dep-lockstep.mjs
index 0a328e44..5d29497b 100644
--- a/scripts/verify-dep-lockstep.mjs
+++ b/scripts/verify-dep-lockstep.mjs
@@ -132,10 +132,12 @@ export function packageNameOf(specifier) {
 // name would silently widen the set.
 //
 // Whitespace between tokens is really *trivia*: TypeScript allows a comment
-// anywhere whitespace is legal, so `import(/* webpackIgnore: true */ "pkg")`
-// and `from /* why */ "pkg"` are valid and must still be seen (Copilot,
-// #1962). `TRIVIA` stands in for `\s*` at every such position.
-const TRIVIA = String.raw`(?:\s|/\*[\s\S]*?\*/)*`;
+// anywhere whitespace is legal, so `import(/* webpackIgnore: true */ "pkg")`,
+// `from /* why */ "pkg"`, and the line-comment forms (`import(// lazy\n"pkg")`)
+// are all valid and must still be seen (Copilot, #1962). `TRIVIA` stands in for
+// `\s*` at every such position and covers both comment syntaxes. A line comment
+// runs to end-of-line only — the newline itself is matched by the `\s` branch.
+const TRIVIA = String.raw`(?:\s|/\*[\s\S]*?\*/|//[^\n]*)*`;
 const SPECIFIER_FORMS = [
   // import … from "x" / export … from "x"
   new RegExp(String.raw`\bfrom${TRIVIA}["']([^"']+)["']`, "g"),
diff --git a/scripts/verify-dep-lockstep.test.mjs b/scripts/verify-dep-lockstep.test.mjs
index 6d0840d7..eee81432 100644
--- a/scripts/verify-dep-lockstep.test.mjs
+++ b/scripts/verify-dep-lockstep.test.mjs
@@ -118,6 +118,25 @@ test("importedPackageNames: comment trivia between tokens (Copilot, #1962)", ()
   ]);
 });
 
+test("importedPackageNames: line-comment trivia, not just block (Copilot, #1962)", () => {
+  // `//` runs to end-of-line and is legal in every position a block comment is,
+  // so these are valid imports too. The newline is matched by TRIVIA's `\\s`
+  // branch rather than by the line-comment branch.
+  const source = [
+    "import { a } from // reason",
+    '  "express";',
+    "const b = await import(// lazy",
+    '  "undici");',
+    "const c = require(// lazy",
+    '  "yaml");',
+  ].join("\n");
+  assert.deepEqual([...importedPackageNames(source)].sort(), [
+    "express",
+    "undici",
+    "yaml",
+  ]);
+});
+
 test("importedPackageNames: the three specifier forms that introduce types", () => {
   const source = `
     import { z } from "zod/v4";