[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#881985: Bug#881985: request-tracker4: Correctly set RT version in configure if a Debian epoch is used

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 10:29:35PM +1300, Andrew Ruthven wrote:
> Source: request-tracker4
> Severity: minor
> Tags: patch
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I need to build a custom RT package to include some custom patches that
> haven't been accepted upstream yet. When I do that, I set an epoch on
> the Debian version to ensure that we don't accidentally upgrade to a
> newer version from Debian. With the 4.4.x packages this has caused
> RT to think the version is 0.0.0, which causes a bunch of issues.
> 
> The attached patch modifies debian/patches/debian_version.diff to strip
> off an epoch, if present, and the Debian patch level from the version
> presented by RT. If you want to keep the Debian patch level, then
> remove
> the first call to sed.

Thanks, though with both sed calls there would be no point in applying
the change at all as we're back to the plain upstream version :)

> I also note that the same diff currently sets the date to 2016 in the
> footer.

The date is already 2016 in the version in stretch, so that looks correct?

Cheers,
Dominic.