Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#1147288: dgit: Fails its autopkgtest due to
scrapping dpkg-source --version"):
> Guillem Jover writes ("Re: Bug#1147288: dgit: Fails its autopkgtest due to
> scrapping dpkg-source --version"):
> > $ dpkg --robot --version; echo
> > 1.23.11
> > $
>
> Thanks. It might be useful to do that for *some* of the calls
> to --version in dgit.git, but I don't think i want to do that for (for
> example) the call that appears in tag2upload transcripts. Eg, here:
Also, we probably couldn't start using such a thing for many years,
because of our desire to maintain very good backward compatibility (in
particular, tested installability and useability on old Debian
releases).
So I guess I'm saying don't add this option on my account.
Ian.
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