On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 12:27:46PM +0300, Mikko Rapeli wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 02:24:01AM +0200, Alexander Sack - Debian Bugmail > wrote: > > Mikko, > > > > you want to update your patch to what we found? > > I think prepending the changelog is not a good idea. Instead one should be > > able to use update-orig target to get the upstream version that is > > currently > > on top in the changelog :). > > > > Maybe use the variable UPSTREAM_VERSION instead of VERSION in the rules > > file. Further, please consider to make the upstream version detection > > automatic. For instancce you could use: > > > > expr "$(cat debian/changelog | head -n1)" : '.*[(]\(.*\)-.*[)].*$' > > > > to get the upstream version as currently documented in changelog. Of course > > repackaging > > the orig.tar.gz would still be necessary. > > This seems like a good idea. I can give it an update, but since testing > this takes some time on slower machines it might take a while. >
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