debian-rules-parses-dpkg-parsechangelog
The rules file appears to be parsing the output of dpkg-parsechangelog to determine the current package version name, version, or timestamp, etc.
Since dpkg 1.16.1, this could be replaced by including the /usr/share/dpkg/pkg-info.mk Makefile library and using the DEB_{SOURCE,VERSION} or SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH variables.
Using this library is not only cleaner and more efficient, it handles many corner-cases such as binNMUs, epoch versions, etc.
| Severity: | info |
| Experimental: | false |
See also
- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag