Export variables to run command

[Benjamin Drung]

It would be nice, if you can pass the variable (like {debupstream}, {time}, r{revno}) to the run command.

[James Westby (james-w)]

On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:14:56 -0000, Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> It would be nice, if you can pass the variable (like {debupstream},
> {time}, r{revno}) to the run command.

Interesting, what would you use these for out of interest?

Thanks,

James

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

There are two use cases:

The first would be to change the upstream version string to the package string. When the user will look at the about dialog, he will see 1.3.11+svn20100202 instead of 1.3.11. Therefore he will know, that he is using a daily build.

The second use case would be to work around bug #458724 by building the source tarball using a run command.