Use git describe to retrieve tag

Makefile

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ include defs.mk
 DESTDIR=/
 BUILDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/testpool
 PROJECT=testpool
-export VERSION:=`python ./setup.py --version`
+export VERSION:=`git describe --abbrev=0 --tag`
 
 ##
 # Use find when __init__.py does not exist in the directory.
@@ -39,16 +39,13 @@ clean::
 	rm -rf ../testpool_* testpool-* deb_dist testpool.egg-info
 	find . -name '*.pyc' -delete
 
-testpool/version.py: debian/changelog
-	dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -rne 's,^Version: (.*),PACKAGE_VERSION="\1", p' > testpool/version.py
-
 .PHONY: rpm.build
 rpm.build:
 	python setup.py bdist_rpm --post-install=rpm/postinstall \
                                   --pre-uninstall=rpm/preuninstall
 
 .PHONY: deb.source
-deb.source: testpool/version.py
+deb.source:
 	python setup.py -q --command-packages=stdeb.command sdist_dsc
 
 .PHONY: deb.build

setup.py

@@ -3,15 +3,16 @@
 """
 
 import os
+import subprocess
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
-import testpool.version
 
 AUTHOR = "Mark Hamilton"
 AUTHOR_EMAIL = "mark.lee.hamilton@gmail.com"
 
 ##
 # Figure out version based on debian changelog
-VERSION = testpool.version.PACKAGE_VERSION
+CMD = "git describe --abbrev=0 --tag"
+VERSION = subprocess.check_output(CMD, shell=True).replace("\n", "")
 ##
 
 with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'README.md')) as readme:

testpool/core/commands.py

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 import traceback
 import unittest
 import testpool.settings
-import testpool.version
 from testpool.core import logger
 from testpool.core import pool
 from testpool.core import resource
@@ -28,8 +27,6 @@ def argparser(progname):
     """ Create top level argument parser. """
 
     arg_parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog=progname)
-    arg_parser.add_argument('--version', action="version",
-                            version=testpool.version.PACKAGE_VERSION)
     arg_parser.add_argument('--verbose', '-v', required=False, action="count",
                             help="enable debug verbosity.")
     return arg_parser