From dfa0758153a6d6f26708d9c1bc549933cbfcc344 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Clement Lefebvre <clement.lefebvre@linuxmint.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:12:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Inject the app version during the build

---
 debian/rules                           | 11 ++++++++++-
 usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/mintMenu.py |  4 +---
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index c215171..0751f93 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -1,4 +1,13 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
 
+DEB_VERSION := $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | egrep '^Version:' | cut -f 2 -d ' ')
+
 %:
-	dh ${@} --with python2
+	dh ${@} --with-python2
+
+# Inject version number in the code
+override_dh_installdeb:
+	dh_installdeb
+	for pkg in $$(dh_listpackages -i); do \
+		find debian/$$pkg -type f -exec sed -i -e s/__DEB_VERSION__/$(DEB_VERSION)/g {} +; \
+	done
diff --git a/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/mintMenu.py b/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/mintMenu.py
index 2bb9678..1635c9c 100755
--- a/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/mintMenu.py
+++ b/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/mintMenu.py
@@ -679,9 +679,7 @@ class MenuWin( object ):
 
         about = Gtk.AboutDialog()
         about.set_name("mintMenu")
-        import commands
-        version = commands.getoutput("/usr/lib/linuxmint/common/version.py mintmenu")
-        about.set_version(version)
+        about.set_version("__DEB_VERSION__")
         try:
             h = open('/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL','r')
             s = h.readlines()