.\" Copyright 2010 Lars Wirzenius .\" .\" This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by .\" the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or .\" (at your option) any later version. .\" .\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the .\" GNU General Public License for more details. .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License .\" along with this program. If not, see . .\" .TH SETUPPY-DEBIAN-VERSIONS-MATCH 1 .SH NAME setuppy-debian-versions-match \- do setup.py and debian/changelog match? .SH SYNOPSIS .B setuppy-debian-versions-match .SH DESCRIPTION When making a Debian package out of Python code that uses distutils, it is good to have .B setup.py --version and the .B debian/changelog file match as far as version information is concerned. This utility checks that they do match. It compares only the upstream portion of the Debian version (everything before the last dash in the version string). .SH "EXIT STATUS" Exit code is 0 (true) if the versions match, and 1 (false) otherwise.