[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#882209: Bug#882209: zfs-linux: remove manual calls to dpkg-architecture and dpkg-parsechangelog

[Fabian Grünbichler]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 09:50:40PM +0800, Aron Xu wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Fabian Grünbichler
> <f.gruenbichler at proxmox.com> wrote:
> > Source: zfs-linux
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Tags: patch
> >
> > please see attached patches for cleaning up debian/rules a bit. the
> > resulting binary packages are bitwise identical.
> >
> 
> When does DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM being introduced? Will this change
> affect the package's backportability?
> 

should be available at least back to Jessie:

http://sources.debian.net/src/dpkg/1.17.27/scripts/mk/pkg-info.mk/

(I only actually tried Sid and Stretch though)