Lintian tag: debian-rules-parses-dpkg-parsechangelog

Type: information

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

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.

Visibility: info
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Check: debian/rules

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