Re: upstream version in debian/rules in a $VARIABLE?

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Hi,

> Do I have easy access to the upstream version in debian/rules?
> 
> Of course, I can get it, but that'd be silly if it's already there.
> 
> dpkg-parsechangelog  | grep ^Version: | cut -f 2 -d \  | cut -f 1 -d -
> 
> (I know, I really should read the sed and awk docs, it's probably easy to 
> fold grep, cut, cut into one.)

I would be interested since I'm doing the following in yc-el package;

VERSION=$(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -n 's/^Version: \([^-]*\).*$$/\1/p')



regards,
	junichi