Re: debhelper: suggestions
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> Maybe you could do it once, in the "rules" file:
>
> export PKG_VERSION=$(shell dh_parseversion)
>
> ... and then use it from the environment.
I don't want the dh_* to be dependant on the particular debian/rules
they are in. They should be able to be added, singly, to rules files,
without any other bother.
> I don't know what to do
> about that error mess.
It's a bug, anyway. However, it can just be directed to /dev/null (it's
stderr).
> Is it on stdout or stderr? Perhaps you could
> have `dh_parseversion' elide it with redirections... piping through
> `gawk' and only grabbing what you need seems to work. I don't know
> if `expr' is a simpler way yet. Hmmm. Does it handle the newlines?
Yes:
expr "`dpkg-parsechangelog`" : '.*Version: \(.*\).*\nDistribution:'
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