Re: [med-svn] r3062 - trunk/packages/dicom3tools/trunk/debian

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Charles Plessy wrote:

> >   I'd like to get rid of get-orig-source, I keep on forgetting to
> > manually modify the version code in get-orig-source any time there is
> > a new release.
>
> there are many ways to get the version number from the changelog.

In the blends-dev package I use:

   version="(>= `dpkg-parsechangelog | grep "^Version:" | sed -e "s/^Version:[[:space:]]\+\([\.0-9]*\)[[:space:]]*/\1/"`)"

> 	tar --create --gzip --file ../biofox_$(DEB_UPSTREAM_VERSION).orig.tar.gz ../biofox-$(DEB_UPSTREAM_VERSION)
>
> (this example needs CDBS)

Grepping the cdbs code for DEB_UPSTREAM_VERSION might reveal an alternate
method to find out how to do this (and become independant from
inclduing cdbs explicitely).

Regards from Trondheim

        Andreas.

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