Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes: > (N.B.: I say "it makes sense to me", but in practice the packages I've > inherited hardcode the version to pull in debian/rules rather than > parsing the changelog. I consider this a minor bug that I just haven't > gotten around to fixing.)
I got into the habit of doing it that way because for some of my packages there isn't a clear mapping between the Debian version and the upstream version. (Tildes may have to be added, for example, and dfsg removed.) I ended up doing it the same way everywhere, although I agree that for simpler cases it would be better to use debian/changelog. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
