Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.69+squeeze1 Severity: wishlist Python programs typically contain a setup.py script, which does all sorts of magic. Some additional magic from Debian then turns the first magic into a proper Debian package, following the Debian Python policy.
setup.py includes the upstream version number. When updating a package it is sadly very easy to forget updating debian/changelog, resulting in some confusion to users. A tool such as the shell script below would be nice to include in devscripts to automate a check that the version numbers match. I run such a tool from debian/rules, but it would be possible to run it also from the command line. -- 8< -- 8< -- 8< -- #!/bin/sh v1="$(python setup.py --version)" v2="$(dpkg-parsechangelog | awk '/^Version:/ { print $2 }' | sed 's/-[^-]*$//')" if [ "$v1" != "$v2" ] then echo "setup.py report version $v1" 1>&2 echo "debian/changelog reports version $v2" 1>&2 echo "they do not match!" exit 1 fi -- 8< -- 8< -- 8< -- (I do not actually consider this to be copyrightable, but any free license that the devscripts maintainers like is OK with me.) -- Package-specific info: --- /etc/devscripts.conf --- --- ~/.devscripts --- DEBSIGN_KEYID=5E8511F9 -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.10 Debian package development tools ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii perl 5.10.1-17 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii at 3.1.12-1 Delayed job execution and batch pr ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20100314cvs-1 simple mail user agent ii bzr 2.1.2-1 easy to use distributed version co ii curl 7.21.0-1 Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or ii dctrl-tools 2.14.5 Command-line tools to process Debi ii debian-keyring [de 2010.12.29 GnuPG keys of Debian Developers ii dput 0.9.6.1 Debian package upload tool ii epiphany-browser [ 2.30.6-1 Intuitive GNOME web browser ii equivs 2.0.8 Circumvent Debian package dependen ii fakeroot 1.14.4-1 Gives a fake root environment ii git [git-core] 1:1.7.2.5-1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii iceweasel [www-bro 3.5.16-7 Web browser based on Firefox ii libauthen-sasl-per 2.1500-1 Authen::SASL - SASL Authentication ii libcrypt-ssleay-pe 0.57-2 Support for https protocol in LWP ii libjson-perl 2.21-1 Perl module to parse and convert t ii libparse-debcontro 2.005-2 Easy OO parsing of Debian control- ii libsoap-lite-perl 0.712-2 Perl implementation of a SOAP clie ii libterm-size-perl 0.2-4+b1 Perl extension for retrieving term ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat ii liburi-perl 1.54-2 module to manipulate and access UR ii libwww-perl 5.836-1 Perl HTTP/WWW client/server librar ii libyaml-syck-perl 1.12-1 Perl module providing a fast, ligh ii lintian 2.4.3 Debian package checker ii lsb-release 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base version report ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in ii man-db 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager ii openssh-client [ss 1:5.5p1-6 secure shell (SSH) client, for sec ii patch 2.6-2 Apply a diff file to an original ii patchutils 0.3.1-2 Utilities to work with patches ii sensible-utils 0.0.4 Utilities for sensible alternative ii strace 4.5.20-2 A system call tracer ii subversion 1.6.12dfsg-5 Advanced version control system ii unzip 6.0-4 De-archiver for .zip files ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.2-9 WWW browsable pager with excellent ii wdiff 0.6.3-1 Compares two files word by word ii wget 1.12-2.1 retrieves files from the web ii xz-utils 5.0.0-2 XZ-format compression utilities Versions of packages devscripts suggests: ii build-essential 11.5 Informational list of build-essent pn cvs-buildpackage <none> (no description available) pn devscripts-el <none> (no description available) ii gnuplot 4.4.0-1.1 A command-line driven interactive pn libfile-desktopentry-p <none> (no description available) pn libnet-smtp-ssl-perl <none> (no description available) ii mutt 1.5.20-9+squeeze1 text-based mailreader supporting M pn svn-buildpackage <none> (no description available) ii w3m 0.5.2-9 WWW browsable pager with excellent -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org