Build system substitutions, for absurdities

[dgit.git] / dgit

diff --git a/dgit b/dgit
index 5fa500c65cc7ff2393d0ceb6fdce458b52446954..344d006692e40a80b40517d58e83502c16284020 100755 (executable)
--- a/dgit
+++ b/dgit
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ use Carp;
 use Debian::Dgit;
 
 our $our_version = 'UNRELEASED'; ###substituted###
+our $absurdity = undef; ###substituted###
 
 our @rpushprotovsn_support = qw(4 3 2); # 4 is new tag format
 our $protovsn;
@@ -146,6 +147,11 @@ our @ourdscfield = qw(Dgit Vcs-Dgit-Master);
 our $csuite;
 our $instead_distro;
 
+if (!defined $absurdity) {
+    $absurdity = $0;
+    $absurdity =~ s{/[^/]+$}{/absurd} or die;
+}
+
 sub debiantag ($$) {
     my ($v,$distro) = @_;
     return $tagformatfn->($v, $distro);