Code review comment for lp:~zulcss/nova/nova-no-tarball

It would be cool if the version info (2013.1 and/or 'g3') didn't have to be hard-coded in debian/rules. I believe all of the projects now have a $project/version.py file that can be loaded as a python module and used to get the version + other info about the build, eg:

git clone nova
cd nova/
python -c 'import nova.version; print nova.version.canonical_version_string()

Also, is there some way to override the remote branch location and branch from a local repository if desired? A fresh nova remote clone can take ~10 minutes. I usually have a local branch tracking the remote, it would be nice to optionally use that instead of the remote.