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. -Mikko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
