FWIW -- you might like my helper http://git.onerussian.com/?p=etc/bash.git;a=blob;f=.bash/bashrc/30_aliases_sh;h=196f98ab0b87519ab326b26674d8f2c720195ebc;hb=HEAD#l347
so my typical workflow for such usecases git fetch origin git checkout debian # where packaging lives git merge origin/master dch_gitrev -i origin/master to get something like this in case of datalad: $> dch_gitrev -i origin/master new entry D: mbase is 'c1e438708ad29293eb2853f5e9cd0b7743d362f0' D: Got new_entry='1', upstream ver of last entry 0.9.1 and 624-gc1e43870. So should be 0.9.1+git624-gc1e43870-1 diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index e49a4f7b..fbc3902e 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +datalad (0.9.1+git624-gc1e43870-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * New upstream snapshot from origin/master at 0.9.1-624-gc1e43870 ... note that the "beauty" is that git still understands that version (strip debian suffix): $> git describe 0.9.1+git624-gc1e43870 0.9.1-624-gc1e43870 Cheers On Fri, 02 Feb 2018, Christophe Trophime wrote: > Hi, > I would like to update a package feelpp from its latest release 0.103.2 to > a more recent development version. > I've tried to define the newest version as: 0.103.3+gitREVNUMBER with > REVNUMBER the id of the git commit > The trouble is that when trying to update locally my package which are > stored in a local repo > apt still wants to install 0.103.2 version instead of the > newest 0.103.3+gitREVNUMBER > What do I miss to get the dev version to be installed? > Thanks for your answers > Best > Christophe TROPHIME > Research Engineer > CNRS - LNCMI > 25, rue des Martyrs > BP 166 > 38042 GRENOBLE Cedex 9 > FRANCE > Tel : +33 (0)4 76 88 90 02 > Fax : +33 (0) 4 76 88 10 01 > Office U 19 > M@il : [email protected] -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik
