Re: ${Source-Version} without revision

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Use dpkg-parsechangelog along with sed to get the upstream from
> the debian version.
> Then use dpkg-gencontrol -VUpstream-Version=$(upstream_version) 

Yes, something like (makefile syntax):

# Version information
VERSION?=$(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | grep -E "^Version:" | tr -d ' \t' | cut -d ':' -f 2-)

UPSTREAM_VERSION:=$(shell echo "$(VERSION)" | sed -e 's/-[^-]\+$$//')

Be my guest to change the first line to a single sed command.

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