Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello. > > Is there any variable similar to ${Source-Version} which would allow me to > use version of the upstream sources in control file? > > I have packages where program and data are distributed separately and > usually there are no need to change data package, but using: > > Depends: foo-data (= ${Source-Version}) > > leads to the situation when I have to bump version of the -data package. > Would be great to have ${Upstream-Version} for such purposes. > > Is there something like that I'm not aware of? > > I couldn't find anything like that in `man dpkg-gencontrol`.
Use dpkg-parsechangelog along with sed to get the upstream from the debian version. Then use dpkg-gencontrol -VUpstream-Version=$(upstream_version) -- Jérôme Marant