From 477820c743fb6aab0fd8515fb0d5fbf6029bd4a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sean Whitton Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 12:19:12 -0700 Subject: document DEB_* functionality in dh_elpa(1) --- debian/changelog | 1 + dh_elpa.in | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index d2ac39e..7814f7e 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ dh-elpa (1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium [ Rémi Vanicat & Sean Whitton ] * use DEB_UPSTREAM_VERSION or DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM as elpa version if there is no version line in the main "*.el" file + * add HINTS section to dh_elpa(1) documenting this -- Rémi Vanicat Mon, 11 Jul 2016 15:29:38 +0200 diff --git a/dh_elpa.in b/dh_elpa.in index 94fa94f..67cd9d8 100755 --- a/dh_elpa.in +++ b/dh_elpa.in @@ -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 + -- cgit v1.2.3