Re: Package review and comment wanted
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:01:34AM +0900, Bengt Thuree wrote:
> >The version of the debian package you produce is taken from the package's
> >topmost changelog entry. For timestamps, you can use touch(1), but I'm
> >having trouble coming up with why you'd want to stamp a file to a
> >particular
> >time...
> for the buppo --version output. And I think it would be handled by cvs
> or subversion, but for the moment I am actually using .deb as my
> revision control....
OK, so you do actually want to have your version information generated
automatically from your revision control stuff.
I use tla for most of my ongoing development work now, and I've put scripts
together to make a release for me. This includes creating a tag branch for
the release, as well as automatically sorting out the version numbers in the
code. (I'm actually basing my versioning off the Debian changelog, since
it's a Debian-native project, but that's not important). What you could do
is write a script which takes an argument of your new version number, which
tags in your revision control system, does a search-n-replace with sed for
inserting the current version number, and perhaps resets the debian version
in debian/changelog (run something like dch -v <foo>-1).
I love shell scripting.
- Matt
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