Hi, I know about the SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION trick when it is used in d/rules :
include /usr/share/dpkg/pkg-info.mk export SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION=$(DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM) so setuptools-scm won't have trouble finding the correct version outside of a git repository. But the situation I'm facing is that the upstream testing code also needs this. Not at build-time, but at autopkgtest-time. My initial d/tests/control was: Tests: upstreamtestsuite Depends: @, python3-setuptools, python3-setuptools-scm and d/tests/upstreamtestsuite was: #!/bin/sh set -e python3 setup.py test 2>1 which of course failed because setuptools-scm couldn't find the version. I got around by turning d/tests/upstreamtestsuite to: #!/bin/sh set -e SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION=0.0.0 python3 setup.py test 2>&1 which worked because in fact the tests don't care about the version. But if they did, how would I inject the right version into this script? Thanks, JP