Re: Bug#466550: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> (N.B.: I say "it makes sense to me", but in practice the packages I've
> inherited hardcode the version to pull in debian/rules rather than
> parsing the changelog. I consider this a minor bug that I just haven't
> gotten around to fixing.)
I got into the habit of doing it that way because for some of my packages
there isn't a clear mapping between the Debian version and the upstream
version. (Tildes may have to be added, for example, and dfsg removed.) I
ended up doing it the same way everywhere, although I agree that for
simpler cases it would be better to use debian/changelog.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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