Re: debhelper: suggestions

[karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom)]

>>>>> "Joey" == Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:

    Joey> Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
    >> Note that I use `dpkg-parsechangelog', rather than the simpler:
    >>
    >> LINE=$(head -1 changelog) VERSION=$(expr $LINE : '.* (\(.*\))')
    >>
    >> ... since I thought that the reason for using
    >> `dpkg-parsechangelog' was so folks could experiment with
    >> alternative changelog formats.

    Joey> Ah, I'll have to modify debhelper to use that. Good point.

 Well, I'm glad you wrote it the way you did.  I've just begun to
 learn how shell scripts are written and that's the first time I'd
 encountered that use of `expr'.  I learned from it.


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