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authorGuillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>2009-10-25 23:56:30 +0100
committerGuillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>2009-10-26 05:19:56 +0100
commit971e675a180c59642e2406acbb0c6f7bc68961e6 (patch)
treeba00e3a9e3ecb57cd9801c5ade7bf6b4b2409f90 /debian
parent1c88ead04c95096f03b61a6032d443a327964926 (diff)
downloaddpkg-971e675a180c59642e2406acbb0c6f7bc68961e6.tar.gz
Generate the autoconf version from git
Use a new script to retrieve the version from a file shipped in the released tarballs, or from the git repository using “git describe” which will give an appropriate string in case of a snapshot, and add a possible “-dirty” suffix if the working dir has uncommitted changes.
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diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8e1463ba1..d779babf5 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ dpkg (1.15.5) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Rework varbuf api to avoid increasing buffers indefinitely when adding
content to them, regardless of space being already available.
* Fix build macros to allow start-stop-deaemon to use TIOCNOTTY.
+ * Generate the autoconf version from git to make it easier to see when a
+ snapshot version is being used.
[ Raphaël Hertzog ]
* Add versioned dependency on base-files (>= 5.0.0) to dpkg-dev to ensure