Antoine Beaupré <anar...@debian.org> writes: > Answering my own question (and it would be nice to have this documented > somewhere!), the solution is to use a more recent dh-python dependency > and depend on python-setuptools-scm explicitely, *and* use > --buildsystem=pybuild.
In the past I have found I need to set (in debian/rules): export SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION=$(shell cat PKG-INFO | sed -n 's/^Version: //p') otherwise the version won't come out correctly. -- Brian May <b...@debian.org>