On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 18:20 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > On 04-Mar-2009, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > get-orig-source should also retrieve the most recent version of > > upstream rather than the last on in debian/changelog, as policy > > mentions. > > How, then, should the version string (needed to construct the correct > tarball filename) be determined from the upstream branch? bzr-builddeb can do this for you, by taking the current version in debian/changelog and updating the revno in that. What I usually use for get-orig-source is something like this:
get-orig-source:
bzr builddeb --export-only --build-dir=tmp
mv tmp/*.orig.tar.gz .
rm -rf tmp
This will retrieve the upstream branch name (lp:bzr-loom in this case)
from .bzr-builddeb/default.conf
Cheers,
Jelmer
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