[Pkg-gnutls-maint] Source-Version in debian/control

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Tue Jun 6 17:28:37 UTC 2006


On 2006-06-05 James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net> wrote:
> I saw earlier that use of ${Source-Version} is discouraged in
> debian/control as it can break in a few cases during an binNMU. 

> dpkg provides two variables that could be substituted. 

>   source:Version
>     The source package version.

>   binary:Version
>     The binary package version (which may differ from
>     source:Version in a binNMU for example).

> which I guess implies binary:Version should be used.

> I'm going to change to binary:Version.

Yes, saw that in the SVN commit mailing list archive. ;-)

> If this is wrong drop me an email
> and I'll revert the change. 

I would prefer that you undo it, Source-Version and the new
binary:Version produce the same result. However, binary:Version
requires dpkg-dev 1.13.19. therefore making backports harder than
necessary.

thanks, cu andreas

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