On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Tim Dengel wrote: > The second issue is, as you said, the use of git. But adding git to the > build dependencies would not solve this, since the .git directory is not > contained in the original tarball, so git couldn't extract the version > from it anyways. > > But I think all this is a non-issue, since the script is only used to > tell the (upstream) build system the git version so the "about" dialog > in the application can show that version number. If the script fails > (like it does now) the build system falls back to the hardcoded version > (0.1.0 in this case), and those are the versions that get packaged anyways.
You might want to talk to upstream about switching from their homegrown system to autorevision, which takes care of this quite nicely: https://autorevision.github.io/about/ -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
