From b8197792e4da9071bf45e7025215fc59b8dfcc77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "A. Maitland Bottoms" <bottoms@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 21:35:01 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] propagate debian version

---
 git-version-gen | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/git-version-gen b/git-version-gen
index 42cf3d2..4c23c7c 100755
--- a/git-version-gen
+++ b/git-version-gen
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # Print a version string.
-scriptversion=2010-01-28.01
+scriptversion=2017-12-12.21
 
 # Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 #
@@ -89,6 +89,15 @@ then
 	&& echo "$0: WARNING: $tarball_version_file seems to be damaged" 1>&2
 fi
 
+# Second, see if there is a debian/changelog file.
+# then use the package version.
+if test -f debian/changelog
+then
+    v=`dpkg-parsechangelog -ldebian/changelog | sed -rne 's,^Version: (.*),\1,p'` || exit 1
+    test -z "$v" \
+	&& echo "$0: WARNING: Cannot parse Debian version" 1>&2
+fi
+
 if test -n "$v"
 then
     : # use $v
-- 
2.11.0

