On Tue, 28 Feb 2017, Sébastien Delafond wrote:
> I agree: this is more of a documentation problem (I always double-check
> the version manually in the *changes files, prior to writing the DSA),
> and not something that's easily fixed in gen-DSA itself.
>
> However, if you acknowledge the limitations brought forward by
> Salvatore, but still think a "version guess" can help, we're of course
> not opposed to your implementing this behavior via an *optional*
> command-line switch (that'd ideally document all those
> shortcomings).
Maybe we should be able to pass the name of the .changes file to
gen-DSA, and then the script can go and use all the information from
there?
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