Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation? running `jq --version` yielded an answer that does not correspond to `dpkg -l jq`
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
      I installed `jq:1.7.1-6` and ran `jq --version`

      I had to download the source tarball and confirm that it was actually `1.7.1`.
      Then I had to download the debian changes bit to find the patch that hard coded the version to `1.7`.
      I also downloaded the upstream version of jq 1.7.1 and confirmed that when using `--verison` with it, it reports `1.7.1`.
   * What was the outcome of this action?
      I've determined that the packaged binary is approximately `1.7.1` but lies and claims it is 1.7.
      I've determined that upstream provides a binary for `1.7.1` and reports it is `1.7.1`.
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
      Versions that correspond to `1.7.1` should claim to be `1.7.1` (and similarly for versions 1.x.1).

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We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
jq, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1108533@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) <czchen@debian.org> (supplier of updated jq package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:30:59 +0800
Source: jq
Architecture: source
Version: 1.8.1-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) <czchen@debian.org>
Changed-By: ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) <czchen@debian.org>
Closes: 1108533 1108854
Changes:
 jq (1.8.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Enable time64 abi to fix i386 unit test fails (Closes: #1108854)
   * Use dpkg-parsechangelog to get build version (Closes: #1108533)
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Hi!

To fetch the version, instead of using:

  dpkg-parsechangelog | grep --basic-regex '^Version: ' | cut --delimiter=' ' --field=2 | cut --delimiter='-' --field=1

You could use:

  dpkg-parsechangelog --show-field=Version | cut --delimiter='-' --field=1


But I guess even better would be if upstream fixed the build system so
that it works also from a tarball release (not just from git), for
example with something like this:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libbsd/libbsd/-/blob/main/get-version
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libbsd/libbsd/-/blob/main/Makefile.am#L17

Thanks,
Guillem