Re: ${Source-Version} without revision
Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <fenio@debian.org> writes:
> Hello.
>
> Is there any variable similar to ${Source-Version} which would allow me to
> use version of the upstream sources in control file?
>
> I have packages where program and data are distributed separately and
> usually there are no need to change data package, but using:
>
> Depends: foo-data (= ${Source-Version})
>
> leads to the situation when I have to bump version of the -data package.
> Would be great to have ${Upstream-Version} for such purposes.
>
> Is there something like that I'm not aware of?
>
> I couldn't find anything like that in `man dpkg-gencontrol`.
Use dpkg-parsechangelog along with sed to get the upstream from
the debian version.
Then use dpkg-gencontrol -VUpstream-Version=$(upstream_version)
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Jérôme Marant
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