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Michael Mior
Michael Mior

Reputation: 28752

Automatically bump versions when building a Debian package

I have a set of Debian packaging scripts and I would like the version number of the package to be incremented each time it is built. (i.e. debian_revision as specified in the Debian Policy Manual) That is, the first build should be PACKAGE-1.0-0, then PACKAGE-1.0-0, and so on (where 1.0 is the upstream_version). Is there an easy way to specify this "extra" version number without having to create a new entry in the changelog?

I'm looking to have this automatically done by the Makefile for the project whenever a particular target (i.e. deb is built)

Upvotes: 9

Views: 5518

Answers (1)

fakeroot
fakeroot

Reputation: 284

dh_* scripts read debian/changelog to build a changes file and set the versions, among other things. You should not change the version without editing the changelog, but if your problem is changes made manually you can make a script that invokes

dch -i

or if your problem is changes made at the debian/changelog, you can make a bash script to change the version automatically.

Upvotes: 10

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