On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Thanks, but I'm not sure how valuable this is. If people think it > would be helpful I don't mind it existing, but: Well, it's one of the most common functions of any program. Myself, I realized it was missing after I ran a dist-upgrade and still had the error with missing .git/dgit (0.14 hadn't reached my mirror yet). >> +our $dgit_version = 0.14; >> + > > I don't want to duplicate the version number, because that would > complicate the release process. And I'd rather avoid editing the dgit > script as it is installed, unless absolutely necessary. I agree that build or install time changes are icky. Release time, not so much, but OK. > Perhaps "dgit version" should get the information from the first line > of /usr/share/doc/dgit/changelog.gz. If you don't mind dgit depending on IO::Uncompress::Gunzip just for that (and IO::Uncompress::Xz at some point), I will submit such a patch. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
