add --version

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/DhMakeELPA/Command/Packaging.pm b/lib/DhMakeELPA/Command/Packaging.pm
index f9714b4..0d932c8 100644
--- a/lib/DhMakeELPA/Command/Packaging.pm
+++ b/lib/DhMakeELPA/Command/Packaging.pm
@@ -28,7 +28,11 @@ sub extract_basic {
     $self->debian_dir( $self->main_file('debian') );
     $self->find_bins();
     $self->pkgname(basename(cwd())); # TODO better?
-    $self->elpa_version($self->extract_version());
+    if ( $self->cfg->version ) {
+        $self->elpa_version($self->cfg->version);
+    } else {
+        $self->elpa_version($self->extract_version());
+    }
 
     # Find the homepage, license and copyright by looking at the root
     # .el file, if it exists, of the binary package with the shortest
@@ -231,7 +235,7 @@ sub extract_version {
     if (defined $version) {
         return $version;
     } else {
-        die "Could not determine package version by examining *.el files";
+        die "Could not determine package version by examining *.el files.\nPlease specify --version.";
     }
 }