On 2023-02-03 11 h 58, FC Stegerman wrote:

Presumably there is a way to get the version from e.g.
"dpkg-parsechangelog -S Version" (minus the -1 revision) instead. I'm
not sure how other packages handle this.

You can get those values via the variables provided by /usr/share/dpkg/pkg-info.mk

You can "source" those in your d/rules makefile by using:

include /usr/share/dpkg/pkg-info.mk

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