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@@ -320,3 +320,20 @@ substvars =back +=head1 HINTS + +=head2 Specifying the package version + +If dh_elpa can't determine the package version by looking at *.el +files (usually because upstream has failed to include the proper +headers), it will fallback to the DEB_UPSTREAM_VERSION and +DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM environment variables. An easy way to set one of +these is just to prepend the following to your rules file: + +=over 4 + + include /usr/share/dpkg/pkg-info.mk + export DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM + +=back + |