Dear Gianfranco,

Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> > > specially because in Debian we don't even use version.sh script to
> > > fill the dkms.conf file.
> > 
> > I don't understand what you refer to with "in Debian". Do you mean the
> > fact that I didn't ship the package's upstream's version.sh? Do you
> > think I should?
> 
> I think we shouldn't, because it is used/useful only at build time...

Thanks for your comment on this!

> > > Can you please remove the two lines?
> > 
> > At least not in the way you propsed. Hence removing the tag "patch".
> > 
> > > this is what we do to test dkms packages:
> > [...]
> > > dkms_pkg=$(bash -c ". $dkms_conf; echo \$PACKAGE_NAME" 2>/dev/null)
> > > dkms_ver=$(bash -c ". $dkms_conf; echo \$PACKAGE_VERSION" 2>/dev/null)
> > 
> > You could do ". $dkms_conf > /dev/null"
> 
> interesting, this works indeed:
[...]
> (and uploaded in sid)

Yay! :-)

> Honestly, I still think my patch is something sane to do (of course, as 
> Debian specific patch), because of this done in rules file:
> override_dh_dkms:
>         sed -e 
> 's#`\./version.sh`#$(DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM)#;s#^PRE_BUILD="\(.*\)"#PRE_BUILD="\1
>  $(DKMS_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS)"#' dkms.conf > debian/dkms
>         dh_dkms
> 
> so, in any case, that version.sh is *never* ran in Debian packaging,
> so the whole pushd/popd are useless in this context.

Yeah, and the version.sh call itself can be removed, too. Will do.

Thanks for bringing this up despite the initially differing opinions.
:-)

                Regards, Axel
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