Use dpkg-parsechangelog flag to extract version

3 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index b3bf700..ec53b65 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@ help2man (1.47.4) unstable; urgency=medium
   * Add Chinese (simplified) translation of info page (thanks to Mingye Wang).
   * Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rafael Fontenelle).
   * Reduce the minimum translation to 60% for info files.
+  * Extract version from dpkg-parsechangelog using the new flag, rather
+    than sed.
 
- -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>  Mon, 09 May 2016 15:19:40 +1000
+ -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>  Mon, 09 May 2016 16:05:59 +1000
 
 help2man (1.47.3) unstable; urgency=medium
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 1b22af6..f0400a5 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: devel
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
 Standards-Version: 3.9.6
-Build-Depends: perl (>= 5.8.0-7), debhelper (>= 8), gettext (>= 0.12.1), liblocale-gettext-perl, dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1)
+Build-Depends: perl (>= 5.8.0-7), debhelper (>= 8), gettext (>= 0.12.1), liblocale-gettext-perl, dpkg-dev (>= 1.17.0)
 Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/users/bod/help2man.git
 Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/bod/help2man.git
 
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index ea676e6..2fd9175 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ AM_DIR = $(shell ls -d /usr/share/automake* 2>/dev/null | tail -1)
 VERSION = $(shell ./help2man.PL --version)
 maint-prep:
 	test -n $(AM_DIR)
-	test `dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -n 's/^Version:\s\+//p'` = $(VERSION)
+	test `dpkg-parsechangelog --show-field=Version` = $(VERSION)
 	cp $(addprefix $(AM_DIR)/,$(AM_DOC)) .
 	cp $(addprefix $(AM_DIR)/,$(AM_AUX)) build-aux
 	(echo "		README for GNU help2man version $(VERSION)"; \