Description: Do not get version from git repository, get upstream version from 
Debian environment variable.
Author: Mònica Ramírez Arceda <monica@debian.org>
Bug: https://bugs.debian.org/850842
Last-Update: 2017-01-24

--- Makefile.am
+++ Makefile.am
@@ -7,18 +7,11 @@
 AM_CFLAGS = -Wall -pedantic
 endif
 
-GIT_DESCRIBE = git describe --tags --dirty
-
 # TODO: figure out why log removal is needed and/or make it completely automatic
 dist-hook:
 	@for log in $(srcdir)/examples/*.log ; do if [ -f "$$log" ] ; then \
 	  rm $(srcdir)/examples/*.log ; \
 	  echo 'ERROR: log files need to cleaned BEFORE making tarball, try again'; exit 1 ; fi ; done
-	@ if [ -d .git ] ; then \
-	    if [ $(VERSION) != `$(GIT_DESCRIBE)` ] ; then \
-		echo 'ERROR: version mismatch, rerun autoconf -f' ; exit 1 ; fi ; \
-	    $(SED) 's/\[m4_esyscmd_s(\[$(GIT_DESCRIBE)\])\]/[$(VERSION)]/' \
-	      $(srcdir)/configure.ac > $(distdir)/configure.ac ; fi
 
 cleantar:
 	@(rm -f xmlstarlet*.tar.gz)
@@ -40,9 +33,7 @@
 dist-win32: $(distdir)-win32.zip
 
 version.h: VERSION
-	@if [ -d .git ] ; then \
-	    VERSION=`$(GIT_DESCRIBE)`; \
-	else VERSION=$(VERSION) ; fi; \
+	VERSION=$(VERSION) ; \
 	NEW_VERSION="#define VERSION \"$$VERSION\""; \
 	OLD_VERSION=`cat version.h 2>/dev/null` ; \
 	if [ "$$NEW_VERSION" != "$$OLD_VERSION" ] ; then \
--- configure.ac
+++ configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.62])
-AC_INIT([XMLStarlet], [m4_esyscmd_s([git describe --tags --dirty])],
+AC_INIT([XMLStarlet], [%%DISTVERSION%%],
         [http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmlstar/support],
         [],
         [http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/])