Merge pull request #66 from kalikaneko/debian-rel0.3.1

Debian rel0.3.1

36 files changed, 3057 insertions, 81 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 057a46cc..2137aebd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,23 @@
+0.3.1 Aug 23:
+Client:
+  o Add libsqlite3-dev requirement for soledad.
+  o Check for None in private methods that depend on _db. Closes:
+    #3497
+  o Add XSalsa20 symmetric encryption method.
+  o Use pycryptopp for symmetric encryption.
+  o Add public method to access the saved password. Closes #3118.
+  o Split soledad package into common, client and server. Closes
+    #3487.
+  o Add versioneer, parse_requirements
+Server:
+  o Split soledad package into common, client and server. Closes
+    #3487.
+  o Add versioneer, parse_requirements
+Common:
+  o Split soledad package into common, client and server. Closes
+    #3487.
+  o Add versioneer, parse_requirements
+
 0.3.0 Aug 9:
 Client:
   o Thread safe wrapper for pysqlcipher.
diff --git a/changes/bug-update-readme-requirements b/changes/bug-update-readme-requirements
deleted file mode 100644
index fedb78cf..00000000
--- a/changes/bug-update-readme-requirements
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-  o Add libsqlite3-dev requirement for soledad.
diff --git a/changes/bug_3497-check-for-none-in-priv-db b/changes/bug_3497-check-for-none-in-priv-db
deleted file mode 100644
index 26365ec8..00000000
--- a/changes/bug_3497-check-for-none-in-priv-db
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-  o Check for None in private methods that depend on _db. Closes: #3497
diff --git a/changes/feature_add-xsalsa20-encryption-method b/changes/feature_add-xsalsa20-encryption-method
deleted file mode 100644
index 66b97de8..00000000
--- a/changes/feature_add-xsalsa20-encryption-method
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-  o Add XSalsa20 symmetric encryption method.
diff --git a/changes/feature_use-pycryptopp-for-symmetric-encryption b/changes/feature_use-pycryptopp-for-symmetric-encryption
deleted file mode 100644
index 1f28db97..00000000
--- a/changes/feature_use-pycryptopp-for-symmetric-encryption
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-  o Use pycryptopp for symmetric encryption.
diff --git a/client/.gitattributes b/client/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f3ad0c16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+src/leap/soledad/client/_version.py export-subst
diff --git a/client/changes/feature_3118-provide-a-way-to-access-the-saved-password b/client/changes/feature_3118-provide-a-way-to-access-the-saved-password
deleted file mode 100644
index 69cb0b1d..00000000
--- a/client/changes/feature_3118-provide-a-way-to-access-the-saved-password
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-  o Add public method to access the saved password. Closes #3118.
diff --git a/client/changes/feature_3487-split-soledad-into-common-client-and-server b/client/changes/feature_3487-split-soledad-into-common-client-and-server
deleted file mode 100644
index 2eab6b56..00000000
--- a/client/changes/feature_3487-split-soledad-into-common-client-and-server
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-  o Split soledad package into common, client and server. Closes #3487.
diff --git a/client/pkg/__init__.py b/client/pkg/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/pkg/__init__.py
diff --git a/client/pkg/requirements.pip b/client/pkg/requirements.pip
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..86b79bb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/pkg/requirements.pip
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+pysqlcipher
+simplejson
+u1db
+scrypt
+pyxdg
+pycryptopp
+
+#
+# leap deps
+#
+
+leap.soledad.common>=0.3.0
+
+#
+# XXX things to fix yet:
+#
+
+# this is not strictly needed by us, but we need it
+# until u1db adds it to its release as a dep.
+oauth
+
+# pysqlite should not be a dep, see #2945
+pysqlite
diff --git a/client/pkg/utils.py b/client/pkg/utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..deace14b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/pkg/utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# utils.py
+# Copyright (C) 2013 LEAP
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+"""
+Utils to help in the setup process
+"""
+
+import os
+import re
+import sys
+
+
+def get_reqs_from_files(reqfiles):
+    """
+    Returns the contents of the top requirement file listed as a
+    string list with the lines
+
+    @param reqfiles: requirement files to parse
+    @type reqfiles: list of str
+    """
+    for reqfile in reqfiles:
+        if os.path.isfile(reqfile):
+            return open(reqfile, 'r').read().split('\n')
+
+
+def parse_requirements(reqfiles=['requirements.txt',
+                                 'requirements.pip',
+                                 'pkg/requirements.pip']):
+    """
+    Parses the requirement files provided.
+
+    Checks the value of LEAP_VENV_SKIP_PYSIDE to see if it should
+    return PySide as a dep or not. Don't set, or set to 0 if you want
+    to install it through pip.
+
+    @param reqfiles: requirement files to parse
+    @type reqfiles: list of str
+    """
+
+    requirements = []
+    skip_pyside = os.getenv("LEAP_VENV_SKIP_PYSIDE", "0") != "0"
+    for line in get_reqs_from_files(reqfiles):
+        # -e git://foo.bar/baz/master#egg=foobar
+        if re.match(r'\s*-e\s+', line):
+            pass
+            # do not try to do anything with externals on vcs
+            #requirements.append(re.sub(r'\s*-e\s+.*#egg=(.*)$', r'\1',
+                                #line))
+        # http://foo.bar/baz/foobar/zipball/master#egg=foobar
+        elif re.match(r'\s*https?:', line):
+            requirements.append(re.sub(r'\s*https?:.*#egg=(.*)$', r'\1',
+                                line))
+        # -f lines are for index locations, and don't get used here
+        elif re.match(r'\s*-f\s+', line):
+            pass
+
+        # argparse is part of the standard library starting with 2.7
+        # adding it to the requirements list screws distro installs
+        elif line == 'argparse' and sys.version_info >= (2, 7):
+            pass
+        elif line == 'PySide' and skip_pyside:
+            pass
+        # do not include comments
+        elif line.lstrip().startswith('#'):
+            pass
+        else:
+            if line != '':
+                requirements.append(line)
+
+    return requirements
diff --git a/client/setup.py b/client/setup.py
index 291c95fe..142922a4 100644
--- a/client/setup.py
+++ b/client/setup.py
@@ -14,26 +14,19 @@
 #
 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 # along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+"""
+setup file for leap.soledad.client
+"""
+from setuptools import setup
+from setuptools import find_packages
 
+import versioneer
+versioneer.versionfile_source = 'src/leap/soledad/client/_version.py'
+versioneer.versionfile_build = 'leap/soledad/client/_version.py'
+versioneer.tag_prefix = ''  # tags are like 1.2.0
+versioneer.parentdir_prefix = 'leap.soledad.client-'
 
-from setuptools import (
-    setup,
-    find_packages
-)
-
-
-install_requirements = [
-    'pysqlcipher',
-    'pysqlite',  # TODO: this should not be a dep, see #2945
-    'simplejson',
-    'oauth',  # this is not strictly needed by us, but we need it
-              # until u1db adds it to its release as a dep.
-    'u1db',
-    'scrypt',
-    'pyxdg',
-    'pycryptopp',
-    'leap.soledad.common>=0.3.0',
-]
+from pkg import utils
 
 
 trove_classifiers = (
@@ -50,10 +43,12 @@ trove_classifiers = (
     "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules"
 )
 
+# XXX add ref to docs
 
 setup(
     name='leap.soledad.client',
-    version='0.3.0',
+    version=versioneer.get_version(),
+    cmdclass=versioneer.get_cmdclass(),
     url='https://leap.se/',
     license='GPLv3+',
     description='Synchronization of locally encrypted data among devices.',
@@ -64,10 +59,10 @@ setup(
         "securely shared among devices. It provides, to other parts of the "
         "LEAP client, an API for data storage and sync."
     ),
+    classifiers=trove_classifiers,
     namespace_packages=["leap", "leap.soledad"],
     packages=find_packages('src'),
     package_dir={'': 'src'},
-    install_requires=install_requirements,
-    classifiers=trove_classifiers,
-    extras_require={'signaling': ['leap.common']},
+    install_requires=utils.parse_requirements(),
+    extras_require={'signaling': ['leap.common>=0.3.0']},
 )
diff --git a/client/src/leap/soledad/client/__init__.py b/client/src/leap/soledad/client/__init__.py
index a3b26689..df2b30c2 100644
--- a/client/src/leap/soledad/client/__init__.py
+++ b/client/src/leap/soledad/client/__init__.py
@@ -1126,3 +1126,7 @@ http_client._VerifiedHTTPSConnection = VerifiedHTTPSConnection
 
 
 __all__ = ['soledad_assert', 'Soledad']
+
+from ._version import get_versions
+__version__ = get_versions()['version']
+del get_versions
diff --git a/client/src/leap/soledad/client/_version.py b/client/src/leap/soledad/client/_version.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8db26fe5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/src/leap/soledad/client/_version.py
@@ -0,0 +1,203 @@
+
+IN_LONG_VERSION_PY = True
+# This file helps to compute a version number in source trees obtained from
+# git-archive tarball (such as those provided by githubs download-from-tag
+# feature). Distribution tarballs (build by setup.py sdist) and build
+# directories (produced by setup.py build) will contain a much shorter file
+# that just contains the computed version number.
+
+# This file is released into the public domain. Generated by
+# versioneer-0.7+ (https://github.com/warner/python-versioneer)
+
+# these strings will be replaced by git during git-archive
+git_refnames = "$Format:%d$"
+git_full = "$Format:%H$"
+
+
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+def run_command(args, cwd=None, verbose=False):
+    try:
+        # remember shell=False, so use git.cmd on windows, not just git
+        p = subprocess.Popen(args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, cwd=cwd)
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        e = sys.exc_info()[1]
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to run %s" % args[0])
+            print(e)
+        return None
+    stdout = p.communicate()[0].strip()
+    if sys.version >= '3':
+        stdout = stdout.decode()
+    if p.returncode != 0:
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to run %s (error)" % args[0])
+        return None
+    return stdout
+
+
+import sys
+import re
+import os.path
+
+def get_expanded_variables(versionfile_source):
+    # the code embedded in _version.py can just fetch the value of these
+    # variables. When used from setup.py, we don't want to import
+    # _version.py, so we do it with a regexp instead. This function is not
+    # used from _version.py.
+    variables = {}
+    try:
+        f = open(versionfile_source,"r")
+        for line in f.readlines():
+            if line.strip().startswith("git_refnames ="):
+                mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                if mo:
+                    variables["refnames"] = mo.group(1)
+            if line.strip().startswith("git_full ="):
+                mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                if mo:
+                    variables["full"] = mo.group(1)
+        f.close()
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        pass
+    return variables
+
+def versions_from_expanded_variables(variables, tag_prefix, verbose=False):
+    refnames = variables["refnames"].strip()
+    if refnames.startswith("$Format"):
+        if verbose:
+            print("variables are unexpanded, not using")
+        return {} # unexpanded, so not in an unpacked git-archive tarball
+    refs = set([r.strip() for r in refnames.strip("()").split(",")])
+    # starting in git-1.8.3, tags are listed as "tag: foo-1.0" instead of
+    # just "foo-1.0". If we see a "tag: " prefix, prefer those.
+    TAG = "tag: "
+    tags = set([r[len(TAG):] for r in refs if r.startswith(TAG)])
+    if not tags:
+        # Either we're using git < 1.8.3, or there really are no tags. We use
+        # a heuristic: assume all version tags have a digit. The old git %d
+        # expansion behaves like git log --decorate=short and strips out the
+        # refs/heads/ and refs/tags/ prefixes that would let us distinguish
+        # between branches and tags. By ignoring refnames without digits, we
+        # filter out many common branch names like "release" and
+        # "stabilization", as well as "HEAD" and "master".
+        tags = set([r for r in refs if re.search(r'\d', r)])
+        if verbose:
+            print("discarding '%s', no digits" % ",".join(refs-tags))
+    if verbose:
+        print("likely tags: %s" % ",".join(sorted(tags)))
+    for ref in sorted(tags):
+        # sorting will prefer e.g. "2.0" over "2.0rc1"
+        if ref.startswith(tag_prefix):
+            r = ref[len(tag_prefix):]
+            if verbose:
+                print("picking %s" % r)
+            return { "version": r,
+                     "full": variables["full"].strip() }
+    # no suitable tags, so we use the full revision id
+    if verbose:
+        print("no suitable tags, using full revision id")
+    return { "version": variables["full"].strip(),
+             "full": variables["full"].strip() }
+
+def versions_from_vcs(tag_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose=False):
+    # this runs 'git' from the root of the source tree. That either means
+    # someone ran a setup.py command (and this code is in versioneer.py, so
+    # IN_LONG_VERSION_PY=False, thus the containing directory is the root of
+    # the source tree), or someone ran a project-specific entry point (and
+    # this code is in _version.py, so IN_LONG_VERSION_PY=True, thus the
+    # containing directory is somewhere deeper in the source tree). This only
+    # gets called if the git-archive 'subst' variables were *not* expanded,
+    # and _version.py hasn't already been rewritten with a short version
+    # string, meaning we're inside a checked out source tree.
+
+    try:
+        here = os.path.abspath(__file__)
+    except NameError:
+        # some py2exe/bbfreeze/non-CPython implementations don't do __file__
+        return {} # not always correct
+
+    # versionfile_source is the relative path from the top of the source tree
+    # (where the .git directory might live) to this file. Invert this to find
+    # the root from __file__.
+    root = here
+    if IN_LONG_VERSION_PY:
+        for i in range(len(versionfile_source.split("/"))):
+            root = os.path.dirname(root)
+    else:
+        root = os.path.dirname(here)
+    if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(root, ".git")):
+        if verbose:
+            print("no .git in %s" % root)
+        return {}
+
+    GIT = "git"
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        GIT = "git.cmd"
+    stdout = run_command([GIT, "describe", "--tags", "--dirty", "--always"],
+                         cwd=root)
+    if stdout is None:
+        return {}
+    if not stdout.startswith(tag_prefix):
+        if verbose:
+            print("tag '%s' doesn't start with prefix '%s'" % (stdout, tag_prefix))
+        return {}
+    tag = stdout[len(tag_prefix):]
+    stdout = run_command([GIT, "rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=root)
+    if stdout is None:
+        return {}
+    full = stdout.strip()
+    if tag.endswith("-dirty"):
+        full += "-dirty"
+    return {"version": tag, "full": full}
+
+
+def versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose=False):
+    if IN_LONG_VERSION_PY:
+        # We're running from _version.py. If it's from a source tree
+        # (execute-in-place), we can work upwards to find the root of the
+        # tree, and then check the parent directory for a version string. If
+        # it's in an installed application, there's no hope.
+        try:
+            here = os.path.abspath(__file__)
+        except NameError:
+            # py2exe/bbfreeze/non-CPython don't have __file__
+            return {} # without __file__, we have no hope
+        # versionfile_source is the relative path from the top of the source
+        # tree to _version.py. Invert this to find the root from __file__.
+        root = here
+        for i in range(len(versionfile_source.split("/"))):
+            root = os.path.dirname(root)
+    else:
+        # we're running from versioneer.py, which means we're running from
+        # the setup.py in a source tree. sys.argv[0] is setup.py in the root.
+        here = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])
+        root = os.path.dirname(here)
+
+    # Source tarballs conventionally unpack into a directory that includes
+    # both the project name and a version string.
+    dirname = os.path.basename(root)
+    if not dirname.startswith(parentdir_prefix):
+        if verbose:
+            print("guessing rootdir is '%s', but '%s' doesn't start with prefix '%s'" %
+                  (root, dirname, parentdir_prefix))
+        return None
+    return {"version": dirname[len(parentdir_prefix):], "full": ""}
+
+tag_prefix = ""
+parentdir_prefix = "leap.soledad.client-"
+versionfile_source = "src/leap/soledad/client/_version.py"
+
+def get_versions(default={"version": "unknown", "full": ""}, verbose=False):
+    variables = { "refnames": git_refnames, "full": git_full }
+    ver = versions_from_expanded_variables(variables, tag_prefix, verbose)
+    if not ver:
+        ver = versions_from_vcs(tag_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose)
+    if not ver:
+        ver = versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, versionfile_source,
+                                      verbose)
+    if not ver:
+        ver = default
+    return ver
+
diff --git a/client/versioneer.py b/client/versioneer.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b43ab062
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/versioneer.py
@@ -0,0 +1,679 @@
+#! /usr/bin/python
+
+"""versioneer.py
+
+(like a rocketeer, but for versions)
+
+* https://github.com/warner/python-versioneer
+* Brian Warner
+* License: Public Domain
+* Version: 0.7+
+
+This file helps distutils-based projects manage their version number by just
+creating version-control tags.
+
+For developers who work from a VCS-generated tree (e.g. 'git clone' etc),
+each 'setup.py version', 'setup.py build', 'setup.py sdist' will compute a
+version number by asking your version-control tool about the current
+checkout. The version number will be written into a generated _version.py
+file of your choosing, where it can be included by your __init__.py
+
+For users who work from a VCS-generated tarball (e.g. 'git archive'), it will
+compute a version number by looking at the name of the directory created when
+te tarball is unpacked. This conventionally includes both the name of the
+project and a version number.
+
+For users who work from a tarball built by 'setup.py sdist', it will get a
+version number from a previously-generated _version.py file.
+
+As a result, loading code directly from the source tree will not result in a
+real version. If you want real versions from VCS trees (where you frequently
+update from the upstream repository, or do new development), you will need to
+do a 'setup.py version' after each update, and load code from the build/
+directory.
+
+You need to provide this code with a few configuration values:
+
+ versionfile_source:
+    A project-relative pathname into which the generated version strings
+    should be written. This is usually a _version.py next to your project's
+    main __init__.py file. If your project uses src/myproject/__init__.py,
+    this should be 'src/myproject/_version.py'. This file should be checked
+    in to your VCS as usual: the copy created below by 'setup.py
+    update_files' will include code that parses expanded VCS keywords in
+    generated tarballs. The 'build' and 'sdist' commands will replace it with
+    a copy that has just the calculated version string.
+
+ versionfile_build:
+    Like versionfile_source, but relative to the build directory instead of
+    the source directory. These will differ when your setup.py uses
+    'package_dir='. If you have package_dir={'myproject': 'src/myproject'},
+    then you will probably have versionfile_build='myproject/_version.py' and
+    versionfile_source='src/myproject/_version.py'.
+
+ tag_prefix: a string, like 'PROJECTNAME-', which appears at the start of all
+             VCS tags. If your tags look like 'myproject-1.2.0', then you
+             should use tag_prefix='myproject-'. If you use unprefixed tags
+             like '1.2.0', this should be an empty string.
+
+ parentdir_prefix: a string, frequently the same as tag_prefix, which
+                   appears at the start of all unpacked tarball filenames. If
+                   your tarball unpacks into 'myproject-1.2.0', this should
+                   be 'myproject-'.
+
+To use it:
+
+ 1: include this file in the top level of your project
+ 2: make the following changes to the top of your setup.py:
+     import versioneer
+     versioneer.versionfile_source = 'src/myproject/_version.py'
+     versioneer.versionfile_build = 'myproject/_version.py'
+     versioneer.tag_prefix = '' # tags are like 1.2.0
+     versioneer.parentdir_prefix = 'myproject-' # dirname like 'myproject-1.2.0'
+ 3: add the following arguments to the setup() call in your setup.py:
+     version=versioneer.get_version(),
+     cmdclass=versioneer.get_cmdclass(),
+ 4: run 'setup.py update_files', which will create _version.py, and will
+    modify your __init__.py to define __version__ (by calling a function
+    from _version.py)
+ 5: modify your MANIFEST.in to include versioneer.py
+ 6: add both versioneer.py and the generated _version.py to your VCS
+"""
+
+import os, sys, re
+from distutils.core import Command
+from distutils.command.sdist import sdist as _sdist
+from distutils.command.build import build as _build
+
+versionfile_source = None
+versionfile_build = None
+tag_prefix = None
+parentdir_prefix = None
+
+VCS = "git"
+IN_LONG_VERSION_PY = False
+
+
+LONG_VERSION_PY = '''
+IN_LONG_VERSION_PY = True
+# This file helps to compute a version number in source trees obtained from
+# git-archive tarball (such as those provided by githubs download-from-tag
+# feature). Distribution tarballs (build by setup.py sdist) and build
+# directories (produced by setup.py build) will contain a much shorter file
+# that just contains the computed version number.
+
+# This file is released into the public domain. Generated by
+# versioneer-0.7+ (https://github.com/warner/python-versioneer)
+
+# these strings will be replaced by git during git-archive
+git_refnames = "%(DOLLAR)sFormat:%%d%(DOLLAR)s"
+git_full = "%(DOLLAR)sFormat:%%H%(DOLLAR)s"
+
+
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+def run_command(args, cwd=None, verbose=False):
+    try:
+        # remember shell=False, so use git.cmd on windows, not just git
+        p = subprocess.Popen(args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, cwd=cwd)
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        e = sys.exc_info()[1]
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to run %%s" %% args[0])
+            print(e)
+        return None
+    stdout = p.communicate()[0].strip()
+    if sys.version >= '3':
+        stdout = stdout.decode()
+    if p.returncode != 0:
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to run %%s (error)" %% args[0])
+        return None
+    return stdout
+
+
+import sys
+import re
+import os.path
+
+def get_expanded_variables(versionfile_source):
+    # the code embedded in _version.py can just fetch the value of these
+    # variables. When used from setup.py, we don't want to import
+    # _version.py, so we do it with a regexp instead. This function is not
+    # used from _version.py.
+    variables = {}
+    try:
+        f = open(versionfile_source,"r")
+        for line in f.readlines():
+            if line.strip().startswith("git_refnames ="):
+                mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                if mo:
+                    variables["refnames"] = mo.group(1)
+            if line.strip().startswith("git_full ="):
+                mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                if mo:
+                    variables["full"] = mo.group(1)
+        f.close()
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        pass
+    return variables
+
+def versions_from_expanded_variables(variables, tag_prefix, verbose=False):
+    refnames = variables["refnames"].strip()
+    if refnames.startswith("$Format"):
+        if verbose:
+            print("variables are unexpanded, not using")
+        return {} # unexpanded, so not in an unpacked git-archive tarball
+    refs = set([r.strip() for r in refnames.strip("()").split(",")])
+    # starting in git-1.8.3, tags are listed as "tag: foo-1.0" instead of
+    # just "foo-1.0". If we see a "tag: " prefix, prefer those.
+    TAG = "tag: "
+    tags = set([r[len(TAG):] for r in refs if r.startswith(TAG)])
+    if not tags:
+        # Either we're using git < 1.8.3, or there really are no tags. We use
+        # a heuristic: assume all version tags have a digit. The old git %%d
+        # expansion behaves like git log --decorate=short and strips out the
+        # refs/heads/ and refs/tags/ prefixes that would let us distinguish
+        # between branches and tags. By ignoring refnames without digits, we
+        # filter out many common branch names like "release" and
+        # "stabilization", as well as "HEAD" and "master".
+        tags = set([r for r in refs if re.search(r'\d', r)])
+        if verbose:
+            print("discarding '%%s', no digits" %% ",".join(refs-tags))
+    if verbose:
+        print("likely tags: %%s" %% ",".join(sorted(tags)))
+    for ref in sorted(tags):
+        # sorting will prefer e.g. "2.0" over "2.0rc1"
+        if ref.startswith(tag_prefix):
+            r = ref[len(tag_prefix):]
+            if verbose:
+                print("picking %%s" %% r)
+            return { "version": r,
+                     "full": variables["full"].strip() }
+    # no suitable tags, so we use the full revision id
+    if verbose:
+        print("no suitable tags, using full revision id")
+    return { "version": variables["full"].strip(),
+             "full": variables["full"].strip() }
+
+def versions_from_vcs(tag_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose=False):
+    # this runs 'git' from the root of the source tree. That either means
+    # someone ran a setup.py command (and this code is in versioneer.py, so
+    # IN_LONG_VERSION_PY=False, thus the containing directory is the root of
+    # the source tree), or someone ran a project-specific entry point (and
+    # this code is in _version.py, so IN_LONG_VERSION_PY=True, thus the
+    # containing directory is somewhere deeper in the source tree). This only
+    # gets called if the git-archive 'subst' variables were *not* expanded,
+    # and _version.py hasn't already been rewritten with a short version
+    # string, meaning we're inside a checked out source tree.
+
+    try:
+        here = os.path.abspath(__file__)
+    except NameError:
+        # some py2exe/bbfreeze/non-CPython implementations don't do __file__
+        return {} # not always correct
+
+    # versionfile_source is the relative path from the top of the source tree
+    # (where the .git directory might live) to this file. Invert this to find
+    # the root from __file__.
+    root = here
+    if IN_LONG_VERSION_PY:
+        for i in range(len(versionfile_source.split("/"))):
+            root = os.path.dirname(root)
+    else:
+        root = os.path.dirname(here)
+    if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(root, ".git")):
+        if verbose:
+            print("no .git in %%s" %% root)
+        return {}
+
+    GIT = "git"
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        GIT = "git.cmd"
+    stdout = run_command([GIT, "describe", "--tags", "--dirty", "--always"],
+                         cwd=root)
+    if stdout is None:
+        return {}
+    if not stdout.startswith(tag_prefix):
+        if verbose:
+            print("tag '%%s' doesn't start with prefix '%%s'" %% (stdout, tag_prefix))
+        return {}
+    tag = stdout[len(tag_prefix):]
+    stdout = run_command([GIT, "rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=root)
+    if stdout is None:
+        return {}
+    full = stdout.strip()
+    if tag.endswith("-dirty"):
+        full += "-dirty"
+    return {"version": tag, "full": full}
+
+
+def versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose=False):
+    if IN_LONG_VERSION_PY:
+        # We're running from _version.py. If it's from a source tree
+        # (execute-in-place), we can work upwards to find the root of the
+        # tree, and then check the parent directory for a version string. If
+        # it's in an installed application, there's no hope.
+        try:
+            here = os.path.abspath(__file__)
+        except NameError:
+            # py2exe/bbfreeze/non-CPython don't have __file__
+            return {} # without __file__, we have no hope
+        # versionfile_source is the relative path from the top of the source
+        # tree to _version.py. Invert this to find the root from __file__.
+        root = here
+        for i in range(len(versionfile_source.split("/"))):
+            root = os.path.dirname(root)
+    else:
+        # we're running from versioneer.py, which means we're running from
+        # the setup.py in a source tree. sys.argv[0] is setup.py in the root.
+        here = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])
+        root = os.path.dirname(here)
+
+    # Source tarballs conventionally unpack into a directory that includes
+    # both the project name and a version string.
+    dirname = os.path.basename(root)
+    if not dirname.startswith(parentdir_prefix):
+        if verbose:
+            print("guessing rootdir is '%%s', but '%%s' doesn't start with prefix '%%s'" %%
+                  (root, dirname, parentdir_prefix))
+        return None
+    return {"version": dirname[len(parentdir_prefix):], "full": ""}
+
+tag_prefix = "%(TAG_PREFIX)s"
+parentdir_prefix = "%(PARENTDIR_PREFIX)s"
+versionfile_source = "%(VERSIONFILE_SOURCE)s"
+
+def get_versions(default={"version": "unknown", "full": ""}, verbose=False):
+    variables = { "refnames": git_refnames, "full": git_full }
+    ver = versions_from_expanded_variables(variables, tag_prefix, verbose)
+    if not ver:
+        ver = versions_from_vcs(tag_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose)
+    if not ver:
+        ver = versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, versionfile_source,
+                                      verbose)
+    if not ver:
+        ver = default
+    return ver
+
+'''
+
+
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+def run_command(args, cwd=None, verbose=False):
+    try:
+        # remember shell=False, so use git.cmd on windows, not just git
+        p = subprocess.Popen(args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, cwd=cwd)
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        e = sys.exc_info()[1]
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to run %s" % args[0])
+            print(e)
+        return None
+    stdout = p.communicate()[0].strip()
+    if sys.version >= '3':
+        stdout = stdout.decode()
+    if p.returncode != 0:
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to run %s (error)" % args[0])
+        return None
+    return stdout
+
+
+import sys
+import re
+import os.path
+
+def get_expanded_variables(versionfile_source):
+    # the code embedded in _version.py can just fetch the value of these
+    # variables. When used from setup.py, we don't want to import
+    # _version.py, so we do it with a regexp instead. This function is not
+    # used from _version.py.
+    variables = {}
+    try:
+        f = open(versionfile_source,"r")
+        for line in f.readlines():
+            if line.strip().startswith("git_refnames ="):
+                mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                if mo:
+                    variables["refnames"] = mo.group(1)
+            if line.strip().startswith("git_full ="):
+                mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                if mo:
+                    variables["full"] = mo.group(1)
+        f.close()
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        pass
+    return variables
+
+def versions_from_expanded_variables(variables, tag_prefix, verbose=False):
+    refnames = variables["refnames"].strip()
+    if refnames.startswith("$Format"):
+        if verbose:
+            print("variables are unexpanded, not using")
+        return {} # unexpanded, so not in an unpacked git-archive tarball
+    refs = set([r.strip() for r in refnames.strip("()").split(",")])
+    # starting in git-1.8.3, tags are listed as "tag: foo-1.0" instead of
+    # just "foo-1.0". If we see a "tag: " prefix, prefer those.
+    TAG = "tag: "
+    tags = set([r[len(TAG):] for r in refs if r.startswith(TAG)])
+    if not tags:
+        # Either we're using git < 1.8.3, or there really are no tags. We use
+        # a heuristic: assume all version tags have a digit. The old git %d
+        # expansion behaves like git log --decorate=short and strips out the
+        # refs/heads/ and refs/tags/ prefixes that would let us distinguish
+        # between branches and tags. By ignoring refnames without digits, we
+        # filter out many common branch names like "release" and
+        # "stabilization", as well as "HEAD" and "master".
+        tags = set([r for r in refs if re.search(r'\d', r)])
+        if verbose:
+            print("discarding '%s', no digits" % ",".join(refs-tags))
+    if verbose:
+        print("likely tags: %s" % ",".join(sorted(tags)))
+    for ref in sorted(tags):
+        # sorting will prefer e.g. "2.0" over "2.0rc1"
+        if ref.startswith(tag_prefix):
+            r = ref[len(tag_prefix):]
+            if verbose:
+                print("picking %s" % r)
+            return { "version": r,
+                     "full": variables["full"].strip() }
+    # no suitable tags, so we use the full revision id
+    if verbose:
+        print("no suitable tags, using full revision id")
+    return { "version": variables["full"].strip(),
+             "full": variables["full"].strip() }
+
+def versions_from_vcs(tag_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose=False):
+    # this runs 'git' from the root of the source tree. That either means
+    # someone ran a setup.py command (and this code is in versioneer.py, so
+    # IN_LONG_VERSION_PY=False, thus the containing directory is the root of
+    # the source tree), or someone ran a project-specific entry point (and
+    # this code is in _version.py, so IN_LONG_VERSION_PY=True, thus the
+    # containing directory is somewhere deeper in the source tree). This only
+    # gets called if the git-archive 'subst' variables were *not* expanded,
+    # and _version.py hasn't already been rewritten with a short version
+    # string, meaning we're inside a checked out source tree.
+
+    try:
+        here = os.path.abspath(__file__)
+    except NameError:
+        # some py2exe/bbfreeze/non-CPython implementations don't do __file__
+        return {} # not always correct
+
+    # versionfile_source is the relative path from the top of the source tree
+    # (where the .git directory might live) to this file. Invert this to find
+    # the root from __file__.
+    root = os.path.dirname(
+        os.path.join('..', here))
+    if IN_LONG_VERSION_PY:
+        for i in range(len(versionfile_source.split("/"))):
+            root = os.path.dirname(root)
+    else:
+        root = os.path.dirname(
+            os.path.join('..', here))
+
+    ######################################################
+    # XXX patch for our specific configuration with
+    # the three projects leap.soledad.{common, client, server}
+    # inside the same repo.
+    ######################################################
+    root = os.path.dirname(os.path.join('..', root))
+
+    if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(root, ".git")):
+        if verbose:
+            print("no .git in %s" % root)
+        return {}
+
+    GIT = "git"
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        GIT = "git.cmd"
+    stdout = run_command([GIT, "describe", "--tags", "--dirty", "--always"],
+                         cwd=root)
+    if stdout is None:
+        return {}
+    if not stdout.startswith(tag_prefix):
+        if verbose:
+            print("tag '%s' doesn't start with prefix '%s'" % (stdout, tag_prefix))
+        return {}
+    tag = stdout[len(tag_prefix):]
+    stdout = run_command([GIT, "rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=root)
+    if stdout is None:
+        return {}
+    full = stdout.strip()
+    if tag.endswith("-dirty"):
+        full += "-dirty"
+    return {"version": tag, "full": full}
+
+
+def versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose=False):
+    if IN_LONG_VERSION_PY:
+        # We're running from _version.py. If it's from a source tree
+        # (execute-in-place), we can work upwards to find the root of the
+        # tree, and then check the parent directory for a version string. If
+        # it's in an installed application, there's no hope.
+        try:
+            here = os.path.abspath(os.path.join('..', __file__))
+        except NameError:
+            # py2exe/bbfreeze/non-CPython don't have __file__
+            return {} # without __file__, we have no hope
+        # versionfile_source is the relative path from the top of the source
+        # tree to _version.py. Invert this to find the root from __file__.
+        root = here
+        for i in range(len(versionfile_source.split("/"))):
+            root = os.path.dirname(root)
+    else:
+        # we're running from versioneer.py, which means we're running from
+        # the setup.py in a source tree. sys.argv[0] is setup.py in the root.
+        here = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])
+        root = os.path.dirname(here)
+
+    # Source tarballs conventionally unpack into a directory that includes
+    # both the project name and a version string.
+    dirname = os.path.basename(root)
+    if not dirname.startswith(parentdir_prefix):
+        if verbose:
+            print("guessing rootdir is '%s', but '%s' doesn't start with prefix '%s'" %
+                  (root, dirname, parentdir_prefix))
+        return None
+    return {"version": dirname[len(parentdir_prefix):], "full": ""}
+
+import sys
+
+def do_vcs_install(versionfile_source, ipy):
+    GIT = "git"
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        GIT = "git.cmd"
+    run_command([GIT, "add", "versioneer.py"])
+    run_command([GIT, "add", versionfile_source])
+    run_command([GIT, "add", ipy])
+    present = False
+    try:
+        f = open(".gitattributes", "r")
+        for line in f.readlines():
+            if line.strip().startswith(versionfile_source):
+                if "export-subst" in line.strip().split()[1:]:
+                    present = True
+        f.close()
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        pass
+    if not present:
+        f = open(".gitattributes", "a+")
+        f.write("%s export-subst\n" % versionfile_source)
+        f.close()
+        run_command([GIT, "add", ".gitattributes"])
+
+
+SHORT_VERSION_PY = """
+# This file was generated by 'versioneer.py' (0.7+) from
+# revision-control system data, or from the parent directory name of an
+# unpacked source archive. Distribution tarballs contain a pre-generated copy
+# of this file.
+
+version_version = '%(version)s'
+version_full = '%(full)s'
+def get_versions(default={}, verbose=False):
+    return {'version': version_version, 'full': version_full}
+
+"""
+
+DEFAULT = {"version": "unknown", "full": "unknown"}
+
+def versions_from_file(filename):
+    versions = {}
+    try:
+        f = open(filename)
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        return versions
+    for line in f.readlines():
+        mo = re.match("version_version = '([^']+)'", line)
+        if mo:
+            versions["version"] = mo.group(1)
+        mo = re.match("version_full = '([^']+)'", line)
+        if mo:
+            versions["full"] = mo.group(1)
+    f.close()
+    return versions
+
+def write_to_version_file(filename, versions):
+    f = open(filename, "w")
+    f.write(SHORT_VERSION_PY % versions)
+    f.close()
+    print("set %s to '%s'" % (filename, versions["version"]))
+
+
+def get_best_versions(versionfile, tag_prefix, parentdir_prefix,
+                      default=DEFAULT, verbose=False):
+    # returns dict with two keys: 'version' and 'full'
+    #
+    # extract version from first of _version.py, 'git describe', parentdir.
+    # This is meant to work for developers using a source checkout, for users
+    # of a tarball created by 'setup.py sdist', and for users of a
+    # tarball/zipball created by 'git archive' or github's download-from-tag
+    # feature.
+
+    variables = get_expanded_variables(versionfile_source)
+    if variables:
+        ver = versions_from_expanded_variables(variables, tag_prefix)
+        if ver:
+            if verbose: print("got version from expanded variable %s" % ver)
+            return ver
+
+    ver = versions_from_file(versionfile)
+    if ver:
+        if verbose: print("got version from file %s %s" % (versionfile, ver))
+        return ver
+
+    ver = versions_from_vcs(tag_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose)
+    if ver:
+        if verbose: print("got version from git %s" % ver)
+        return ver
+
+    ver = versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose)
+    if ver:
+        if verbose: print("got version from parentdir %s" % ver)
+        return ver
+
+    if verbose: print("got version from default %s" % ver)
+    return default
+
+def get_versions(default=DEFAULT, verbose=False):
+    assert versionfile_source is not None, "please set versioneer.versionfile_source"
+    assert tag_prefix is not None, "please set versioneer.tag_prefix"
+    assert parentdir_prefix is not None, "please set versioneer.parentdir_prefix"
+    return get_best_versions(versionfile_source, tag_prefix, parentdir_prefix,
+                             default=default, verbose=verbose)
+def get_version(verbose=False):
+    return get_versions(verbose=verbose)["version"]
+
+class cmd_version(Command):
+    description = "report generated version string"
+    user_options = []
+    boolean_options = []
+    def initialize_options(self):
+        pass
+    def finalize_options(self):
+        pass
+    def run(self):
+        ver = get_version(verbose=True)
+        print("Version is currently: %s" % ver)
+
+
+class cmd_build(_build):
+    def run(self):
+        versions = get_versions(verbose=True)
+        _build.run(self)
+        # now locate _version.py in the new build/ directory and replace it
+        # with an updated value
+        target_versionfile = os.path.join(self.build_lib, versionfile_build)
+        print("UPDATING %s" % target_versionfile)
+        os.unlink(target_versionfile)
+        f = open(target_versionfile, "w")
+        f.write(SHORT_VERSION_PY % versions)
+        f.close()
+
+class cmd_sdist(_sdist):
+    def run(self):
+        versions = get_versions(verbose=True)
+        self._versioneer_generated_versions = versions
+        # unless we update this, the command will keep using the old version
+        self.distribution.metadata.version = versions["version"]
+        return _sdist.run(self)
+
+    def make_release_tree(self, base_dir, files):
+        _sdist.make_release_tree(self, base_dir, files)
+        # now locate _version.py in the new base_dir directory (remembering
+        # that it may be a hardlink) and replace it with an updated value
+        target_versionfile = os.path.join(base_dir, versionfile_source)
+        print("UPDATING %s" % target_versionfile)
+        os.unlink(target_versionfile)
+        f = open(target_versionfile, "w")
+        f.write(SHORT_VERSION_PY % self._versioneer_generated_versions)
+        f.close()
+
+INIT_PY_SNIPPET = """
+from ._version import get_versions
+__version__ = get_versions()['version']
+del get_versions
+"""
+
+class cmd_update_files(Command):
+    description = "modify __init__.py and create _version.py"
+    user_options = []
+    boolean_options = []
+    def initialize_options(self):
+        pass
+    def finalize_options(self):
+        pass
+    def run(self):
+        ipy = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(versionfile_source), "__init__.py")
+        print(" creating %s" % versionfile_source)
+        f = open(versionfile_source, "w")
+        f.write(LONG_VERSION_PY % {"DOLLAR": "$",
+                                   "TAG_PREFIX": tag_prefix,
+                                   "PARENTDIR_PREFIX": parentdir_prefix,
+                                   "VERSIONFILE_SOURCE": versionfile_source,
+                                   })
+        f.close()
+        try:
+            old = open(ipy, "r").read()
+        except EnvironmentError:
+            old = ""
+        if INIT_PY_SNIPPET not in old:
+            print(" appending to %s" % ipy)
+            f = open(ipy, "a")
+            f.write(INIT_PY_SNIPPET)
+            f.close()
+        else:
+            print(" %s unmodified" % ipy)
+        do_vcs_install(versionfile_source, ipy)
+
+def get_cmdclass():
+    return {'version': cmd_version,
+            'update_files': cmd_update_files,
+            'build': cmd_build,
+            'sdist': cmd_sdist,
+            }
diff --git a/common/.gitattributes b/common/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1d59a395
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+src/leap/soledad/common/_version.py export-subst
diff --git a/common/changes/feature_improve_packaging b/common/changes/feature_improve_packaging
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e6d3630a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/changes/feature_improve_packaging
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+  o Add versioneer, parse_requirements
diff --git a/common/pkg/__init__.py b/common/pkg/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/pkg/__init__.py
diff --git a/common/pkg/requirements-testing.pip b/common/pkg/requirements-testing.pip
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6ff52ff9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/pkg/requirements-testing.pip
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+mock
+nose2
+testscenarios
+leap.common
+leap.soledad.server
+leap.soledad.client
+
+# Under quarantine...
+# I've been able to run all tests with six==1.3 -- kali
+# six==1.1.0  # some tests are incompatible with newer versions of six.
diff --git a/common/pkg/requirements.pip b/common/pkg/requirements.pip
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5787114e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/pkg/requirements.pip
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+simplejson
+u1db
+
+#this is not strictly needed by us, but we need it
+#until u1db adds it to its release as a dep.
+oauth
+
diff --git a/common/pkg/utils.py b/common/pkg/utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..deace14b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/pkg/utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# utils.py
+# Copyright (C) 2013 LEAP
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+"""
+Utils to help in the setup process
+"""
+
+import os
+import re
+import sys
+
+
+def get_reqs_from_files(reqfiles):
+    """
+    Returns the contents of the top requirement file listed as a
+    string list with the lines
+
+    @param reqfiles: requirement files to parse
+    @type reqfiles: list of str
+    """
+    for reqfile in reqfiles:
+        if os.path.isfile(reqfile):
+            return open(reqfile, 'r').read().split('\n')
+
+
+def parse_requirements(reqfiles=['requirements.txt',
+                                 'requirements.pip',
+                                 'pkg/requirements.pip']):
+    """
+    Parses the requirement files provided.
+
+    Checks the value of LEAP_VENV_SKIP_PYSIDE to see if it should
+    return PySide as a dep or not. Don't set, or set to 0 if you want
+    to install it through pip.
+
+    @param reqfiles: requirement files to parse
+    @type reqfiles: list of str
+    """
+
+    requirements = []
+    skip_pyside = os.getenv("LEAP_VENV_SKIP_PYSIDE", "0") != "0"
+    for line in get_reqs_from_files(reqfiles):
+        # -e git://foo.bar/baz/master#egg=foobar
+        if re.match(r'\s*-e\s+', line):
+            pass
+            # do not try to do anything with externals on vcs
+            #requirements.append(re.sub(r'\s*-e\s+.*#egg=(.*)$', r'\1',
+                                #line))
+        # http://foo.bar/baz/foobar/zipball/master#egg=foobar
+        elif re.match(r'\s*https?:', line):
+            requirements.append(re.sub(r'\s*https?:.*#egg=(.*)$', r'\1',
+                                line))
+        # -f lines are for index locations, and don't get used here
+        elif re.match(r'\s*-f\s+', line):
+            pass
+
+        # argparse is part of the standard library starting with 2.7
+        # adding it to the requirements list screws distro installs
+        elif line == 'argparse' and sys.version_info >= (2, 7):
+            pass
+        elif line == 'PySide' and skip_pyside:
+            pass
+        # do not include comments
+        elif line.lstrip().startswith('#'):
+            pass
+        else:
+            if line != '':
+                requirements.append(line)
+
+    return requirements
diff --git a/common/setup.py b/common/setup.py
index 6a432608..22159a2a 100644
--- a/common/setup.py
+++ b/common/setup.py
@@ -14,32 +14,19 @@
 #
 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 # along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+"""
+setup file for leap.soledad.common
+"""
+from setuptools import setup
+from setuptools import find_packages
 
+import versioneer
+versioneer.versionfile_source = 'src/leap/soledad/common/_version.py'
+versioneer.versionfile_build = 'leap/soledad/common/_version.py'
+versioneer.tag_prefix = ''  # tags are like 1.2.0
+versioneer.parentdir_prefix = 'leap.soledad.common-'
 
-from setuptools import (
-    setup,
-    find_packages
-)
-
-
-install_requirements = [
-    'simplejson',
-    'oauth',  # this is not strictly needed by us, but we need it
-              # until u1db adds it to its release as a dep.
-    'u1db',
-    'six==1.1.0',  # some tests are incompatible with newer versions of six.
-]
-
-
-tests_requirements = [
-    'mock',
-    'nose2',
-    'testscenarios',
-    'leap.common',
-    'leap.soledad.server',
-    'leap.soledad.client',
-]
-
+from pkg import utils
 
 trove_classifiers = (
     "Development Status :: 3 - Alpha",
@@ -55,10 +42,12 @@ trove_classifiers = (
     "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules"
 )
 
+# XXX add ref to docs
 
 setup(
     name='leap.soledad.common',
-    version='0.3.0',
+    version=versioneer.get_version(),
+    cmdclass=versioneer.get_cmdclass(),
     url='https://leap.se/',
     license='GPLv3+',
     description='Synchronization of locally encrypted data among devices.',
@@ -69,11 +58,12 @@ setup(
         "securely shared among devices. It provides, to other parts of the "
         "LEAP client, an API for data storage and sync."
     ),
+    classifiers=trove_classifiers,
     namespace_packages=["leap", "leap.soledad"],
     packages=find_packages('src', exclude=['leap.soledad.common.tests']),
     package_dir={'': 'src'},
     test_suite='leap.soledad.common.tests',
-    install_requires=install_requirements,
-    tests_require=tests_requirements,
-    classifiers=trove_classifiers,
+    install_requires=utils.parse_requirements(),
+    tests_require=utils.parse_requirements(
+        reqfiles=['pkg/requirements-testing.pip']),
 )
diff --git a/common/src/leap/soledad/common/__init__.py b/common/src/leap/soledad/common/__init__.py
index 4e45b828..26467740 100644
--- a/common/src/leap/soledad/common/__init__.py
+++ b/common/src/leap/soledad/common/__init__.py
@@ -62,3 +62,7 @@ except ImportError:
         soledad_assert(isinstance(var, expectedType),
                        "Expected type %r instead of %r" %
                        (expectedType, type(var)))
+
+from ._version import get_versions
+__version__ = get_versions()['version']
+del get_versions
diff --git a/common/src/leap/soledad/common/_version.py b/common/src/leap/soledad/common/_version.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1d020a14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/src/leap/soledad/common/_version.py
@@ -0,0 +1,203 @@
+
+IN_LONG_VERSION_PY = True
+# This file helps to compute a version number in source trees obtained from
+# git-archive tarball (such as those provided by githubs download-from-tag
+# feature). Distribution tarballs (build by setup.py sdist) and build
+# directories (produced by setup.py build) will contain a much shorter file
+# that just contains the computed version number.
+
+# This file is released into the public domain. Generated by
+# versioneer-0.7+ (https://github.com/warner/python-versioneer)
+
+# these strings will be replaced by git during git-archive
+git_refnames = "$Format:%d$"
+git_full = "$Format:%H$"
+
+
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+def run_command(args, cwd=None, verbose=False):
+    try:
+        # remember shell=False, so use git.cmd on windows, not just git
+        p = subprocess.Popen(args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, cwd=cwd)
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        e = sys.exc_info()[1]
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to run %s" % args[0])
+            print(e)
+        return None
+    stdout = p.communicate()[0].strip()
+    if sys.version >= '3':
+        stdout = stdout.decode()
+    if p.returncode != 0:
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to run %s (error)" % args[0])
+        return None
+    return stdout
+
+
+import sys
+import re
+import os.path
+
+def get_expanded_variables(versionfile_source):
+    # the code embedded in _version.py can just fetch the value of these
+    # variables. When used from setup.py, we don't want to import
+    # _version.py, so we do it with a regexp instead. This function is not
+    # used from _version.py.
+    variables = {}
+    try:
+        f = open(versionfile_source,"r")
+        for line in f.readlines():
+            if line.strip().startswith("git_refnames ="):
+                mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                if mo:
+                    variables["refnames"] = mo.group(1)
+            if line.strip().startswith("git_full ="):
+                mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                if mo:
+                    variables["full"] = mo.group(1)
+        f.close()
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        pass
+    return variables
+
+def versions_from_expanded_variables(variables, tag_prefix, verbose=False):
+    refnames = variables["refnames"].strip()
+    if refnames.startswith("$Format"):
+        if verbose:
+            print("variables are unexpanded, not using")
+        return {} # unexpanded, so not in an unpacked git-archive tarball
+    refs = set([r.strip() for r in refnames.strip("()").split(",")])
+    # starting in git-1.8.3, tags are listed as "tag: foo-1.0" instead of
+    # just "foo-1.0". If we see a "tag: " prefix, prefer those.
+    TAG = "tag: "
+    tags = set([r[len(TAG):] for r in refs if r.startswith(TAG)])
+    if not tags:
+        # Either we're using git < 1.8.3, or there really are no tags. We use
+        # a heuristic: assume all version tags have a digit. The old git %d
+        # expansion behaves like git log --decorate=short and strips out the
+        # refs/heads/ and refs/tags/ prefixes that would let us distinguish
+        # between branches and tags. By ignoring refnames without digits, we
+        # filter out many common branch names like "release" and
+        # "stabilization", as well as "HEAD" and "master".
+        tags = set([r for r in refs if re.search(r'\d', r)])
+        if verbose:
+            print("discarding '%s', no digits" % ",".join(refs-tags))
+    if verbose:
+        print("likely tags: %s" % ",".join(sorted(tags)))
+    for ref in sorted(tags):
+        # sorting will prefer e.g. "2.0" over "2.0rc1"
+        if ref.startswith(tag_prefix):
+            r = ref[len(tag_prefix):]
+            if verbose:
+                print("picking %s" % r)
+            return { "version": r,
+                     "full": variables["full"].strip() }
+    # no suitable tags, so we use the full revision id
+    if verbose:
+        print("no suitable tags, using full revision id")
+    return { "version": variables["full"].strip(),
+             "full": variables["full"].strip() }
+
+def versions_from_vcs(tag_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose=False):
+    # this runs 'git' from the root of the source tree. That either means
+    # someone ran a setup.py command (and this code is in versioneer.py, so
+    # IN_LONG_VERSION_PY=False, thus the containing directory is the root of
+    # the source tree), or someone ran a project-specific entry point (and
+    # this code is in _version.py, so IN_LONG_VERSION_PY=True, thus the
+    # containing directory is somewhere deeper in the source tree). This only
+    # gets called if the git-archive 'subst' variables were *not* expanded,
+    # and _version.py hasn't already been rewritten with a short version
+    # string, meaning we're inside a checked out source tree.
+
+    try:
+        here = os.path.abspath(__file__)
+    except NameError:
+        # some py2exe/bbfreeze/non-CPython implementations don't do __file__
+        return {} # not always correct
+
+    # versionfile_source is the relative path from the top of the source tree
+    # (where the .git directory might live) to this file. Invert this to find
+    # the root from __file__.
+    root = here
+    if IN_LONG_VERSION_PY:
+        for i in range(len(versionfile_source.split("/"))):
+            root = os.path.dirname(root)
+    else:
+        root = os.path.dirname(here)
+    if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(root, ".git")):
+        if verbose:
+            print("no .git in %s" % root)
+        return {}
+
+    GIT = "git"
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        GIT = "git.cmd"
+    stdout = run_command([GIT, "describe", "--tags", "--dirty", "--always"],
+                         cwd=root)
+    if stdout is None:
+        return {}
+    if not stdout.startswith(tag_prefix):
+        if verbose:
+            print("tag '%s' doesn't start with prefix '%s'" % (stdout, tag_prefix))
+        return {}
+    tag = stdout[len(tag_prefix):]
+    stdout = run_command([GIT, "rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=root)
+    if stdout is None:
+        return {}
+    full = stdout.strip()
+    if tag.endswith("-dirty"):
+        full += "-dirty"
+    return {"version": tag, "full": full}
+
+
+def versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose=False):
+    if IN_LONG_VERSION_PY:
+        # We're running from _version.py. If it's from a source tree
+        # (execute-in-place), we can work upwards to find the root of the
+        # tree, and then check the parent directory for a version string. If
+        # it's in an installed application, there's no hope.
+        try:
+            here = os.path.abspath(__file__)
+        except NameError:
+            # py2exe/bbfreeze/non-CPython don't have __file__
+            return {} # without __file__, we have no hope
+        # versionfile_source is the relative path from the top of the source
+        # tree to _version.py. Invert this to find the root from __file__.
+        root = here
+        for i in range(len(versionfile_source.split("/"))):
+            root = os.path.dirname(root)
+    else:
+        # we're running from versioneer.py, which means we're running from
+        # the setup.py in a source tree. sys.argv[0] is setup.py in the root.
+        here = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])
+        root = os.path.dirname(here)
+
+    # Source tarballs conventionally unpack into a directory that includes
+    # both the project name and a version string.
+    dirname = os.path.basename(root)
+    if not dirname.startswith(parentdir_prefix):
+        if verbose:
+            print("guessing rootdir is '%s', but '%s' doesn't start with prefix '%s'" %
+                  (root, dirname, parentdir_prefix))
+        return None
+    return {"version": dirname[len(parentdir_prefix):], "full": ""}
+
+tag_prefix = ""
+parentdir_prefix = "leap.soledad.common-"
+versionfile_source = "src/leap/soledad/common/_version.py"
+
+def get_versions(default={"version": "unknown", "full": ""}, verbose=False):
+    variables = { "refnames": git_refnames, "full": git_full }
+    ver = versions_from_expanded_variables(variables, tag_prefix, verbose)
+    if not ver:
+        ver = versions_from_vcs(tag_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose)
+    if not ver:
+        ver = versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, versionfile_source,
+                                      verbose)
+    if not ver:
+        ver = default
+    return ver
+
diff --git a/common/versioneer.py b/common/versioneer.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b43ab062
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/versioneer.py
@@ -0,0 +1,679 @@
+#! /usr/bin/python
+
+"""versioneer.py
+
+(like a rocketeer, but for versions)
+
+* https://github.com/warner/python-versioneer
+* Brian Warner
+* License: Public Domain
+* Version: 0.7+
+
+This file helps distutils-based projects manage their version number by just
+creating version-control tags.
+
+For developers who work from a VCS-generated tree (e.g. 'git clone' etc),
+each 'setup.py version', 'setup.py build', 'setup.py sdist' will compute a
+version number by asking your version-control tool about the current
+checkout. The version number will be written into a generated _version.py
+file of your choosing, where it can be included by your __init__.py
+
+For users who work from a VCS-generated tarball (e.g. 'git archive'), it will
+compute a version number by looking at the name of the directory created when
+te tarball is unpacked. This conventionally includes both the name of the
+project and a version number.
+
+For users who work from a tarball built by 'setup.py sdist', it will get a
+version number from a previously-generated _version.py file.
+
+As a result, loading code directly from the source tree will not result in a
+real version. If you want real versions from VCS trees (where you frequently
+update from the upstream repository, or do new development), you will need to
+do a 'setup.py version' after each update, and load code from the build/
+directory.
+
+You need to provide this code with a few configuration values:
+
+ versionfile_source:
+    A project-relative pathname into which the generated version strings
+    should be written. This is usually a _version.py next to your project's
+    main __init__.py file. If your project uses src/myproject/__init__.py,
+    this should be 'src/myproject/_version.py'. This file should be checked
+    in to your VCS as usual: the copy created below by 'setup.py
+    update_files' will include code that parses expanded VCS keywords in
+    generated tarballs. The 'build' and 'sdist' commands will replace it with
+    a copy that has just the calculated version string.
+
+ versionfile_build:
+    Like versionfile_source, but relative to the build directory instead of
+    the source directory. These will differ when your setup.py uses
+    'package_dir='. If you have package_dir={'myproject': 'src/myproject'},
+    then you will probably have versionfile_build='myproject/_version.py' and
+    versionfile_source='src/myproject/_version.py'.
+
+ tag_prefix: a string, like 'PROJECTNAME-', which appears at the start of all
+             VCS tags. If your tags look like 'myproject-1.2.0', then you
+             should use tag_prefix='myproject-'. If you use unprefixed tags
+             like '1.2.0', this should be an empty string.
+
+ parentdir_prefix: a string, frequently the same as tag_prefix, which
+                   appears at the start of all unpacked tarball filenames. If
+                   your tarball unpacks into 'myproject-1.2.0', this should
+                   be 'myproject-'.
+
+To use it:
+
+ 1: include this file in the top level of your project
+ 2: make the following changes to the top of your setup.py:
+     import versioneer
+     versioneer.versionfile_source = 'src/myproject/_version.py'
+     versioneer.versionfile_build = 'myproject/_version.py'
+     versioneer.tag_prefix = '' # tags are like 1.2.0
+     versioneer.parentdir_prefix = 'myproject-' # dirname like 'myproject-1.2.0'
+ 3: add the following arguments to the setup() call in your setup.py:
+     version=versioneer.get_version(),
+     cmdclass=versioneer.get_cmdclass(),
+ 4: run 'setup.py update_files', which will create _version.py, and will
+    modify your __init__.py to define __version__ (by calling a function
+    from _version.py)
+ 5: modify your MANIFEST.in to include versioneer.py
+ 6: add both versioneer.py and the generated _version.py to your VCS
+"""
+
+import os, sys, re
+from distutils.core import Command
+from distutils.command.sdist import sdist as _sdist
+from distutils.command.build import build as _build
+
+versionfile_source = None
+versionfile_build = None
+tag_prefix = None
+parentdir_prefix = None
+
+VCS = "git"
+IN_LONG_VERSION_PY = False
+
+
+LONG_VERSION_PY = '''
+IN_LONG_VERSION_PY = True
+# This file helps to compute a version number in source trees obtained from
+# git-archive tarball (such as those provided by githubs download-from-tag
+# feature). Distribution tarballs (build by setup.py sdist) and build
+# directories (produced by setup.py build) will contain a much shorter file
+# that just contains the computed version number.
+
+# This file is released into the public domain. Generated by
+# versioneer-0.7+ (https://github.com/warner/python-versioneer)
+
+# these strings will be replaced by git during git-archive
+git_refnames = "%(DOLLAR)sFormat:%%d%(DOLLAR)s"
+git_full = "%(DOLLAR)sFormat:%%H%(DOLLAR)s"
+
+
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+def run_command(args, cwd=None, verbose=False):
+    try:
+        # remember shell=False, so use git.cmd on windows, not just git
+        p = subprocess.Popen(args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, cwd=cwd)
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        e = sys.exc_info()[1]
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to run %%s" %% args[0])
+            print(e)
+        return None
+    stdout = p.communicate()[0].strip()
+    if sys.version >= '3':
+        stdout = stdout.decode()
+    if p.returncode != 0:
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to run %%s (error)" %% args[0])
+        return None
+    return stdout
+
+
+import sys
+import re
+import os.path
+
+def get_expanded_variables(versionfile_source):
+    # the code embedded in _version.py can just fetch the value of these
+    # variables. When used from setup.py, we don't want to import
+    # _version.py, so we do it with a regexp instead. This function is not
+    # used from _version.py.
+    variables = {}
+    try:
+        f = open(versionfile_source,"r")
+        for line in f.readlines():
+            if line.strip().startswith("git_refnames ="):
+                mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                if mo:
+                    variables["refnames"] = mo.group(1)
+            if line.strip().startswith("git_full ="):
+                mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                if mo:
+                    variables["full"] = mo.group(1)
+        f.close()
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        pass
+    return variables
+
+def versions_from_expanded_variables(variables, tag_prefix, verbose=False):
+    refnames = variables["refnames"].strip()
+    if refnames.startswith("$Format"):
+        if verbose:
+            print("variables are unexpanded, not using")
+        return {} # unexpanded, so not in an unpacked git-archive tarball
+    refs = set([r.strip() for r in refnames.strip("()").split(",")])
+    # starting in git-1.8.3, tags are listed as "tag: foo-1.0" instead of
+    # just "foo-1.0". If we see a "tag: " prefix, prefer those.
+    TAG = "tag: "
+    tags = set([r[len(TAG):] for r in refs if r.startswith(TAG)])
+    if not tags:
+        # Either we're using git < 1.8.3, or there really are no tags. We use
+        # a heuristic: assume all version tags have a digit. The old git %%d
+        # expansion behaves like git log --decorate=short and strips out the
+        # refs/heads/ and refs/tags/ prefixes that would let us distinguish
+        # between branches and tags. By ignoring refnames without digits, we
+        # filter out many common branch names like "release" and
+        # "stabilization", as well as "HEAD" and "master".
+        tags = set([r for r in refs if re.search(r'\d', r)])
+        if verbose:
+            print("discarding '%%s', no digits" %% ",".join(refs-tags))
+    if verbose:
+        print("likely tags: %%s" %% ",".join(sorted(tags)))
+    for ref in sorted(tags):
+        # sorting will prefer e.g. "2.0" over "2.0rc1"
+        if ref.startswith(tag_prefix):
+            r = ref[len(tag_prefix):]
+            if verbose:
+                print("picking %%s" %% r)
+            return { "version": r,
+                     "full": variables["full"].strip() }
+    # no suitable tags, so we use the full revision id
+    if verbose:
+        print("no suitable tags, using full revision id")
+    return { "version": variables["full"].strip(),
+             "full": variables["full"].strip() }
+
+def versions_from_vcs(tag_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose=False):
+    # this runs 'git' from the root of the source tree. That either means
+    # someone ran a setup.py command (and this code is in versioneer.py, so
+    # IN_LONG_VERSION_PY=False, thus the containing directory is the root of
+    # the source tree), or someone ran a project-specific entry point (and
+    # this code is in _version.py, so IN_LONG_VERSION_PY=True, thus the
+    # containing directory is somewhere deeper in the source tree). This only
+    # gets called if the git-archive 'subst' variables were *not* expanded,
+    # and _version.py hasn't already been rewritten with a short version
+    # string, meaning we're inside a checked out source tree.
+
+    try:
+        here = os.path.abspath(__file__)
+    except NameError:
+        # some py2exe/bbfreeze/non-CPython implementations don't do __file__
+        return {} # not always correct
+
+    # versionfile_source is the relative path from the top of the source tree
+    # (where the .git directory might live) to this file. Invert this to find
+    # the root from __file__.
+    root = here
+    if IN_LONG_VERSION_PY:
+        for i in range(len(versionfile_source.split("/"))):
+            root = os.path.dirname(root)
+    else:
+        root = os.path.dirname(here)
+    if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(root, ".git")):
+        if verbose:
+            print("no .git in %%s" %% root)
+        return {}
+
+    GIT = "git"
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        GIT = "git.cmd"
+    stdout = run_command([GIT, "describe", "--tags", "--dirty", "--always"],
+                         cwd=root)
+    if stdout is None:
+        return {}
+    if not stdout.startswith(tag_prefix):
+        if verbose:
+            print("tag '%%s' doesn't start with prefix '%%s'" %% (stdout, tag_prefix))
+        return {}
+    tag = stdout[len(tag_prefix):]
+    stdout = run_command([GIT, "rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=root)
+    if stdout is None:
+        return {}
+    full = stdout.strip()
+    if tag.endswith("-dirty"):
+        full += "-dirty"
+    return {"version": tag, "full": full}
+
+
+def versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose=False):
+    if IN_LONG_VERSION_PY:
+        # We're running from _version.py. If it's from a source tree
+        # (execute-in-place), we can work upwards to find the root of the
+        # tree, and then check the parent directory for a version string. If
+        # it's in an installed application, there's no hope.
+        try:
+            here = os.path.abspath(__file__)
+        except NameError:
+            # py2exe/bbfreeze/non-CPython don't have __file__
+            return {} # without __file__, we have no hope
+        # versionfile_source is the relative path from the top of the source
+        # tree to _version.py. Invert this to find the root from __file__.
+        root = here
+        for i in range(len(versionfile_source.split("/"))):
+            root = os.path.dirname(root)
+    else:
+        # we're running from versioneer.py, which means we're running from
+        # the setup.py in a source tree. sys.argv[0] is setup.py in the root.
+        here = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])
+        root = os.path.dirname(here)
+
+    # Source tarballs conventionally unpack into a directory that includes
+    # both the project name and a version string.
+    dirname = os.path.basename(root)
+    if not dirname.startswith(parentdir_prefix):
+        if verbose:
+            print("guessing rootdir is '%%s', but '%%s' doesn't start with prefix '%%s'" %%
+                  (root, dirname, parentdir_prefix))
+        return None
+    return {"version": dirname[len(parentdir_prefix):], "full": ""}
+
+tag_prefix = "%(TAG_PREFIX)s"
+parentdir_prefix = "%(PARENTDIR_PREFIX)s"
+versionfile_source = "%(VERSIONFILE_SOURCE)s"
+
+def get_versions(default={"version": "unknown", "full": ""}, verbose=False):
+    variables = { "refnames": git_refnames, "full": git_full }
+    ver = versions_from_expanded_variables(variables, tag_prefix, verbose)
+    if not ver:
+        ver = versions_from_vcs(tag_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose)
+    if not ver:
+        ver = versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, versionfile_source,
+                                      verbose)
+    if not ver:
+        ver = default
+    return ver
+
+'''
+
+
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+def run_command(args, cwd=None, verbose=False):
+    try:
+        # remember shell=False, so use git.cmd on windows, not just git
+        p = subprocess.Popen(args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, cwd=cwd)
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        e = sys.exc_info()[1]
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to run %s" % args[0])
+            print(e)
+        return None
+    stdout = p.communicate()[0].strip()
+    if sys.version >= '3':
+        stdout = stdout.decode()
+    if p.returncode != 0:
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to run %s (error)" % args[0])
+        return None
+    return stdout
+
+
+import sys
+import re
+import os.path
+
+def get_expanded_variables(versionfile_source):
+    # the code embedded in _version.py can just fetch the value of these
+    # variables. When used from setup.py, we don't want to import
+    # _version.py, so we do it with a regexp instead. This function is not
+    # used from _version.py.
+    variables = {}
+    try:
+        f = open(versionfile_source,"r")
+        for line in f.readlines():
+            if line.strip().startswith("git_refnames ="):
+                mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                if mo:
+                    variables["refnames"] = mo.group(1)
+            if line.strip().startswith("git_full ="):
+                mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                if mo:
+                    variables["full"] = mo.group(1)
+        f.close()
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        pass
+    return variables
+
+def versions_from_expanded_variables(variables, tag_prefix, verbose=False):
+    refnames = variables["refnames"].strip()
+    if refnames.startswith("$Format"):
+        if verbose:
+            print("variables are unexpanded, not using")
+        return {} # unexpanded, so not in an unpacked git-archive tarball
+    refs = set([r.strip() for r in refnames.strip("()").split(",")])
+    # starting in git-1.8.3, tags are listed as "tag: foo-1.0" instead of
+    # just "foo-1.0". If we see a "tag: " prefix, prefer those.
+    TAG = "tag: "
+    tags = set([r[len(TAG):] for r in refs if r.startswith(TAG)])
+    if not tags:
+        # Either we're using git < 1.8.3, or there really are no tags. We use
+        # a heuristic: assume all version tags have a digit. The old git %d
+        # expansion behaves like git log --decorate=short and strips out the
+        # refs/heads/ and refs/tags/ prefixes that would let us distinguish
+        # between branches and tags. By ignoring refnames without digits, we
+        # filter out many common branch names like "release" and
+        # "stabilization", as well as "HEAD" and "master".
+        tags = set([r for r in refs if re.search(r'\d', r)])
+        if verbose:
+            print("discarding '%s', no digits" % ",".join(refs-tags))
+    if verbose:
+        print("likely tags: %s" % ",".join(sorted(tags)))
+    for ref in sorted(tags):
+        # sorting will prefer e.g. "2.0" over "2.0rc1"
+        if ref.startswith(tag_prefix):
+            r = ref[len(tag_prefix):]
+            if verbose:
+                print("picking %s" % r)
+            return { "version": r,
+                     "full": variables["full"].strip() }
+    # no suitable tags, so we use the full revision id
+    if verbose:
+        print("no suitable tags, using full revision id")
+    return { "version": variables["full"].strip(),
+             "full": variables["full"].strip() }
+
+def versions_from_vcs(tag_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose=False):
+    # this runs 'git' from the root of the source tree. That either means
+    # someone ran a setup.py command (and this code is in versioneer.py, so
+    # IN_LONG_VERSION_PY=False, thus the containing directory is the root of
+    # the source tree), or someone ran a project-specific entry point (and
+    # this code is in _version.py, so IN_LONG_VERSION_PY=True, thus the
+    # containing directory is somewhere deeper in the source tree). This only
+    # gets called if the git-archive 'subst' variables were *not* expanded,
+    # and _version.py hasn't already been rewritten with a short version
+    # string, meaning we're inside a checked out source tree.
+
+    try:
+        here = os.path.abspath(__file__)
+    except NameError:
+        # some py2exe/bbfreeze/non-CPython implementations don't do __file__
+        return {} # not always correct
+
+    # versionfile_source is the relative path from the top of the source tree
+    # (where the .git directory might live) to this file. Invert this to find
+    # the root from __file__.
+    root = os.path.dirname(
+        os.path.join('..', here))
+    if IN_LONG_VERSION_PY:
+        for i in range(len(versionfile_source.split("/"))):
+            root = os.path.dirname(root)
+    else:
+        root = os.path.dirname(
+            os.path.join('..', here))
+
+    ######################################################
+    # XXX patch for our specific configuration with
+    # the three projects leap.soledad.{common, client, server}
+    # inside the same repo.
+    ######################################################
+    root = os.path.dirname(os.path.join('..', root))
+
+    if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(root, ".git")):
+        if verbose:
+            print("no .git in %s" % root)
+        return {}
+
+    GIT = "git"
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        GIT = "git.cmd"
+    stdout = run_command([GIT, "describe", "--tags", "--dirty", "--always"],
+                         cwd=root)
+    if stdout is None:
+        return {}
+    if not stdout.startswith(tag_prefix):
+        if verbose:
+            print("tag '%s' doesn't start with prefix '%s'" % (stdout, tag_prefix))
+        return {}
+    tag = stdout[len(tag_prefix):]
+    stdout = run_command([GIT, "rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=root)
+    if stdout is None:
+        return {}
+    full = stdout.strip()
+    if tag.endswith("-dirty"):
+        full += "-dirty"
+    return {"version": tag, "full": full}
+
+
+def versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose=False):
+    if IN_LONG_VERSION_PY:
+        # We're running from _version.py. If it's from a source tree
+        # (execute-in-place), we can work upwards to find the root of the
+        # tree, and then check the parent directory for a version string. If
+        # it's in an installed application, there's no hope.
+        try:
+            here = os.path.abspath(os.path.join('..', __file__))
+        except NameError:
+            # py2exe/bbfreeze/non-CPython don't have __file__
+            return {} # without __file__, we have no hope
+        # versionfile_source is the relative path from the top of the source
+        # tree to _version.py. Invert this to find the root from __file__.
+        root = here
+        for i in range(len(versionfile_source.split("/"))):
+            root = os.path.dirname(root)
+    else:
+        # we're running from versioneer.py, which means we're running from
+        # the setup.py in a source tree. sys.argv[0] is setup.py in the root.
+        here = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])
+        root = os.path.dirname(here)
+
+    # Source tarballs conventionally unpack into a directory that includes
+    # both the project name and a version string.
+    dirname = os.path.basename(root)
+    if not dirname.startswith(parentdir_prefix):
+        if verbose:
+            print("guessing rootdir is '%s', but '%s' doesn't start with prefix '%s'" %
+                  (root, dirname, parentdir_prefix))
+        return None
+    return {"version": dirname[len(parentdir_prefix):], "full": ""}
+
+import sys
+
+def do_vcs_install(versionfile_source, ipy):
+    GIT = "git"
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        GIT = "git.cmd"
+    run_command([GIT, "add", "versioneer.py"])
+    run_command([GIT, "add", versionfile_source])
+    run_command([GIT, "add", ipy])
+    present = False
+    try:
+        f = open(".gitattributes", "r")
+        for line in f.readlines():
+            if line.strip().startswith(versionfile_source):
+                if "export-subst" in line.strip().split()[1:]:
+                    present = True
+        f.close()
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        pass
+    if not present:
+        f = open(".gitattributes", "a+")
+        f.write("%s export-subst\n" % versionfile_source)
+        f.close()
+        run_command([GIT, "add", ".gitattributes"])
+
+
+SHORT_VERSION_PY = """
+# This file was generated by 'versioneer.py' (0.7+) from
+# revision-control system data, or from the parent directory name of an
+# unpacked source archive. Distribution tarballs contain a pre-generated copy
+# of this file.
+
+version_version = '%(version)s'
+version_full = '%(full)s'
+def get_versions(default={}, verbose=False):
+    return {'version': version_version, 'full': version_full}
+
+"""
+
+DEFAULT = {"version": "unknown", "full": "unknown"}
+
+def versions_from_file(filename):
+    versions = {}
+    try:
+        f = open(filename)
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        return versions
+    for line in f.readlines():
+        mo = re.match("version_version = '([^']+)'", line)
+        if mo:
+            versions["version"] = mo.group(1)
+        mo = re.match("version_full = '([^']+)'", line)
+        if mo:
+            versions["full"] = mo.group(1)
+    f.close()
+    return versions
+
+def write_to_version_file(filename, versions):
+    f = open(filename, "w")
+    f.write(SHORT_VERSION_PY % versions)
+    f.close()
+    print("set %s to '%s'" % (filename, versions["version"]))
+
+
+def get_best_versions(versionfile, tag_prefix, parentdir_prefix,
+                      default=DEFAULT, verbose=False):
+    # returns dict with two keys: 'version' and 'full'
+    #
+    # extract version from first of _version.py, 'git describe', parentdir.
+    # This is meant to work for developers using a source checkout, for users
+    # of a tarball created by 'setup.py sdist', and for users of a
+    # tarball/zipball created by 'git archive' or github's download-from-tag
+    # feature.
+
+    variables = get_expanded_variables(versionfile_source)
+    if variables:
+        ver = versions_from_expanded_variables(variables, tag_prefix)
+        if ver:
+            if verbose: print("got version from expanded variable %s" % ver)
+            return ver
+
+    ver = versions_from_file(versionfile)
+    if ver:
+        if verbose: print("got version from file %s %s" % (versionfile, ver))
+        return ver
+
+    ver = versions_from_vcs(tag_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose)
+    if ver:
+        if verbose: print("got version from git %s" % ver)
+        return ver
+
+    ver = versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose)
+    if ver:
+        if verbose: print("got version from parentdir %s" % ver)
+        return ver
+
+    if verbose: print("got version from default %s" % ver)
+    return default
+
+def get_versions(default=DEFAULT, verbose=False):
+    assert versionfile_source is not None, "please set versioneer.versionfile_source"
+    assert tag_prefix is not None, "please set versioneer.tag_prefix"
+    assert parentdir_prefix is not None, "please set versioneer.parentdir_prefix"
+    return get_best_versions(versionfile_source, tag_prefix, parentdir_prefix,
+                             default=default, verbose=verbose)
+def get_version(verbose=False):
+    return get_versions(verbose=verbose)["version"]
+
+class cmd_version(Command):
+    description = "report generated version string"
+    user_options = []
+    boolean_options = []
+    def initialize_options(self):
+        pass
+    def finalize_options(self):
+        pass
+    def run(self):
+        ver = get_version(verbose=True)
+        print("Version is currently: %s" % ver)
+
+
+class cmd_build(_build):
+    def run(self):
+        versions = get_versions(verbose=True)
+        _build.run(self)
+        # now locate _version.py in the new build/ directory and replace it
+        # with an updated value
+        target_versionfile = os.path.join(self.build_lib, versionfile_build)
+        print("UPDATING %s" % target_versionfile)
+        os.unlink(target_versionfile)
+        f = open(target_versionfile, "w")
+        f.write(SHORT_VERSION_PY % versions)
+        f.close()
+
+class cmd_sdist(_sdist):
+    def run(self):
+        versions = get_versions(verbose=True)
+        self._versioneer_generated_versions = versions
+        # unless we update this, the command will keep using the old version
+        self.distribution.metadata.version = versions["version"]
+        return _sdist.run(self)
+
+    def make_release_tree(self, base_dir, files):
+        _sdist.make_release_tree(self, base_dir, files)
+        # now locate _version.py in the new base_dir directory (remembering
+        # that it may be a hardlink) and replace it with an updated value
+        target_versionfile = os.path.join(base_dir, versionfile_source)
+        print("UPDATING %s" % target_versionfile)
+        os.unlink(target_versionfile)
+        f = open(target_versionfile, "w")
+        f.write(SHORT_VERSION_PY % self._versioneer_generated_versions)
+        f.close()
+
+INIT_PY_SNIPPET = """
+from ._version import get_versions
+__version__ = get_versions()['version']
+del get_versions
+"""
+
+class cmd_update_files(Command):
+    description = "modify __init__.py and create _version.py"
+    user_options = []
+    boolean_options = []
+    def initialize_options(self):
+        pass
+    def finalize_options(self):
+        pass
+    def run(self):
+        ipy = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(versionfile_source), "__init__.py")
+        print(" creating %s" % versionfile_source)
+        f = open(versionfile_source, "w")
+        f.write(LONG_VERSION_PY % {"DOLLAR": "$",
+                                   "TAG_PREFIX": tag_prefix,
+                                   "PARENTDIR_PREFIX": parentdir_prefix,
+                                   "VERSIONFILE_SOURCE": versionfile_source,
+                                   })
+        f.close()
+        try:
+            old = open(ipy, "r").read()
+        except EnvironmentError:
+            old = ""
+        if INIT_PY_SNIPPET not in old:
+            print(" appending to %s" % ipy)
+            f = open(ipy, "a")
+            f.write(INIT_PY_SNIPPET)
+            f.close()
+        else:
+            print(" %s unmodified" % ipy)
+        do_vcs_install(versionfile_source, ipy)
+
+def get_cmdclass():
+    return {'version': cmd_version,
+            'update_files': cmd_update_files,
+            'build': cmd_build,
+            'sdist': cmd_sdist,
+            }
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 7553fc52..69776370 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
-soledad (0.3.1pre) unstable; urgency=low
+soledad (0.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Update to latest release.
+  * Fix pydist-overrides.
+
+ -- Ben Carrillo <ben@futeisha.org>  Mon, 26 Aug 2013 18:21:09 +0200
+
+soledad (0.3.1~pre) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Upgrade to latest code in develop
   * Setup additional binary package
diff --git a/debian/pydist-overrides b/debian/pydist-overrides
index e089c871..26984829 100644
--- a/debian/pydist-overrides
+++ b/debian/pydist-overrides
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 pysqlcipher python-sqlcipher
-python-leap.soledad.common soledad-common
\ No newline at end of file
+leap.soledad.common soledad-common
+leap.soledad.server soledad-server
+leap.soledad.client soledad-client
diff --git a/server/.gitattributes b/server/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a00356cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+src/leap/soledad/server/_version.py export-subst
diff --git a/server/changes/feature_3487-split-soledad-into-common-client-and-server b/server/changes/feature_3487-split-soledad-into-common-client-and-server
deleted file mode 100644
index 2eab6b56..00000000
--- a/server/changes/feature_3487-split-soledad-into-common-client-and-server
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-  o Split soledad package into common, client and server. Closes #3487.
diff --git a/server/pkg/__init__.py b/server/pkg/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/pkg/__init__.py
diff --git a/server/pkg/requirements.pip b/server/pkg/requirements.pip
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7cbca401
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/pkg/requirements.pip
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+configparser
+couchdb
+simplejson
+u1db
+routes
+PyOpenSSL
+
+# TODO: maybe we just want twisted-web?
+twisted>=12.0.0
+
+# leap deps -- bump me!
+leap.soledad.common>=0.3.0
+
+#
+# Things yet to fix:
+#
+
+# oauth is not strictly needed by us, but we need it
+# until u1db adds it to its release as a dep.
+
+oauth
+
diff --git a/server/pkg/utils.py b/server/pkg/utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..deace14b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/pkg/utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# utils.py
+# Copyright (C) 2013 LEAP
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+"""
+Utils to help in the setup process
+"""
+
+import os
+import re
+import sys
+
+
+def get_reqs_from_files(reqfiles):
+    """
+    Returns the contents of the top requirement file listed as a
+    string list with the lines
+
+    @param reqfiles: requirement files to parse
+    @type reqfiles: list of str
+    """
+    for reqfile in reqfiles:
+        if os.path.isfile(reqfile):
+            return open(reqfile, 'r').read().split('\n')
+
+
+def parse_requirements(reqfiles=['requirements.txt',
+                                 'requirements.pip',
+                                 'pkg/requirements.pip']):
+    """
+    Parses the requirement files provided.
+
+    Checks the value of LEAP_VENV_SKIP_PYSIDE to see if it should
+    return PySide as a dep or not. Don't set, or set to 0 if you want
+    to install it through pip.
+
+    @param reqfiles: requirement files to parse
+    @type reqfiles: list of str
+    """
+
+    requirements = []
+    skip_pyside = os.getenv("LEAP_VENV_SKIP_PYSIDE", "0") != "0"
+    for line in get_reqs_from_files(reqfiles):
+        # -e git://foo.bar/baz/master#egg=foobar
+        if re.match(r'\s*-e\s+', line):
+            pass
+            # do not try to do anything with externals on vcs
+            #requirements.append(re.sub(r'\s*-e\s+.*#egg=(.*)$', r'\1',
+                                #line))
+        # http://foo.bar/baz/foobar/zipball/master#egg=foobar
+        elif re.match(r'\s*https?:', line):
+            requirements.append(re.sub(r'\s*https?:.*#egg=(.*)$', r'\1',
+                                line))
+        # -f lines are for index locations, and don't get used here
+        elif re.match(r'\s*-f\s+', line):
+            pass
+
+        # argparse is part of the standard library starting with 2.7
+        # adding it to the requirements list screws distro installs
+        elif line == 'argparse' and sys.version_info >= (2, 7):
+            pass
+        elif line == 'PySide' and skip_pyside:
+            pass
+        # do not include comments
+        elif line.lstrip().startswith('#'):
+            pass
+        else:
+            if line != '':
+                requirements.append(line)
+
+    return requirements
diff --git a/server/setup.py b/server/setup.py
index 89354a57..7dcd127c 100644
--- a/server/setup.py
+++ b/server/setup.py
@@ -14,28 +14,20 @@
 #
 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 # along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-
+"""
+setup file for leap.soledad.server
+"""
 import os
-from setuptools import (
-    setup,
-    find_packages
-)
+from setuptools import setup
+from setuptools import find_packages
 
+import versioneer
+versioneer.versionfile_source = 'src/leap/soledad/server/_version.py'
+versioneer.versionfile_build = 'leap/soledad/server/_version.py'
+versioneer.tag_prefix = ''  # tags are like 1.2.0
+versioneer.parentdir_prefix = 'leap.soledad.server-'
 
-install_requirements = [
-    'configparser',
-    'couchdb',
-    'simplejson',
-    'twisted>=12.0.0',  # TODO: maybe we just want twisted-web?
-    'oauth',  # this is not strictly needed by us, but we need it
-              # until u1db adds it to its release as a dep.
-    'u1db',
-    'routes',
-    'PyOpenSSL',
-    'leap.soledad.common>=0.3.0',
-]
-
+from pkg import utils
 
 if os.environ.get('VIRTUAL_ENV', None):
     data_files = None
@@ -61,7 +53,8 @@ trove_classifiers = (
 
 setup(
     name='leap.soledad.server',
-    version='0.3.0',
+    version=versioneer.get_version(),
+    cmdclass=versioneer.get_cmdclass(),
     url='https://leap.se/',
     license='GPLv3+',
     description='Synchronization of locally encrypted data among devices.',
@@ -72,10 +65,10 @@ setup(
         "securely shared among devices. It provides, to other parts of the "
         "LEAP client, an API for data storage and sync."
     ),
+    classifiers=trove_classifiers,
     namespace_packages=["leap", "leap.soledad"],
     packages=find_packages('src'),
     package_dir={'': 'src'},
-    install_requires=install_requirements,
+    install_requires=utils.parse_requirements(),
     data_files=data_files,
-    classifiers=trove_classifiers,
 )
diff --git a/server/src/leap/soledad/server/__init__.py b/server/src/leap/soledad/server/__init__.py
index 4ed8efc9..0c56acb9 100644
--- a/server/src/leap/soledad/server/__init__.py
+++ b/server/src/leap/soledad/server/__init__.py
@@ -123,3 +123,7 @@ state = CouchServerState(conf['couch_url'])
 application = SoledadTokenAuthMiddleware(SoledadApp(state))
 
 resource = WSGIResource(reactor, reactor.getThreadPool(), application)
+
+from ._version import get_versions
+__version__ = get_versions()['version']
+del get_versions
diff --git a/server/src/leap/soledad/server/_version.py b/server/src/leap/soledad/server/_version.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..85f0e54c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/leap/soledad/server/_version.py
@@ -0,0 +1,203 @@
+
+IN_LONG_VERSION_PY = True
+# This file helps to compute a version number in source trees obtained from
+# git-archive tarball (such as those provided by githubs download-from-tag
+# feature). Distribution tarballs (build by setup.py sdist) and build
+# directories (produced by setup.py build) will contain a much shorter file
+# that just contains the computed version number.
+
+# This file is released into the public domain. Generated by
+# versioneer-0.7+ (https://github.com/warner/python-versioneer)
+
+# these strings will be replaced by git during git-archive
+git_refnames = "$Format:%d$"
+git_full = "$Format:%H$"
+
+
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+def run_command(args, cwd=None, verbose=False):
+    try:
+        # remember shell=False, so use git.cmd on windows, not just git
+        p = subprocess.Popen(args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, cwd=cwd)
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        e = sys.exc_info()[1]
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to run %s" % args[0])
+            print(e)
+        return None
+    stdout = p.communicate()[0].strip()
+    if sys.version >= '3':
+        stdout = stdout.decode()
+    if p.returncode != 0:
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to run %s (error)" % args[0])
+        return None
+    return stdout
+
+
+import sys
+import re
+import os.path
+
+def get_expanded_variables(versionfile_source):
+    # the code embedded in _version.py can just fetch the value of these
+    # variables. When used from setup.py, we don't want to import
+    # _version.py, so we do it with a regexp instead. This function is not
+    # used from _version.py.
+    variables = {}
+    try:
+        f = open(versionfile_source,"r")
+        for line in f.readlines():
+            if line.strip().startswith("git_refnames ="):
+                mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                if mo:
+                    variables["refnames"] = mo.group(1)
+            if line.strip().startswith("git_full ="):
+                mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                if mo:
+                    variables["full"] = mo.group(1)
+        f.close()
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        pass
+    return variables
+
+def versions_from_expanded_variables(variables, tag_prefix, verbose=False):
+    refnames = variables["refnames"].strip()
+    if refnames.startswith("$Format"):
+        if verbose:
+            print("variables are unexpanded, not using")
+        return {} # unexpanded, so not in an unpacked git-archive tarball
+    refs = set([r.strip() for r in refnames.strip("()").split(",")])
+    # starting in git-1.8.3, tags are listed as "tag: foo-1.0" instead of
+    # just "foo-1.0". If we see a "tag: " prefix, prefer those.
+    TAG = "tag: "
+    tags = set([r[len(TAG):] for r in refs if r.startswith(TAG)])
+    if not tags:
+        # Either we're using git < 1.8.3, or there really are no tags. We use
+        # a heuristic: assume all version tags have a digit. The old git %d
+        # expansion behaves like git log --decorate=short and strips out the
+        # refs/heads/ and refs/tags/ prefixes that would let us distinguish
+        # between branches and tags. By ignoring refnames without digits, we
+        # filter out many common branch names like "release" and
+        # "stabilization", as well as "HEAD" and "master".
+        tags = set([r for r in refs if re.search(r'\d', r)])
+        if verbose:
+            print("discarding '%s', no digits" % ",".join(refs-tags))
+    if verbose:
+        print("likely tags: %s" % ",".join(sorted(tags)))
+    for ref in sorted(tags):
+        # sorting will prefer e.g. "2.0" over "2.0rc1"
+        if ref.startswith(tag_prefix):
+            r = ref[len(tag_prefix):]
+            if verbose:
+                print("picking %s" % r)
+            return { "version": r,
+                     "full": variables["full"].strip() }
+    # no suitable tags, so we use the full revision id
+    if verbose:
+        print("no suitable tags, using full revision id")
+    return { "version": variables["full"].strip(),
+             "full": variables["full"].strip() }
+
+def versions_from_vcs(tag_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose=False):
+    # this runs 'git' from the root of the source tree. That either means
+    # someone ran a setup.py command (and this code is in versioneer.py, so
+    # IN_LONG_VERSION_PY=False, thus the containing directory is the root of
+    # the source tree), or someone ran a project-specific entry point (and
+    # this code is in _version.py, so IN_LONG_VERSION_PY=True, thus the
+    # containing directory is somewhere deeper in the source tree). This only
+    # gets called if the git-archive 'subst' variables were *not* expanded,
+    # and _version.py hasn't already been rewritten with a short version
+    # string, meaning we're inside a checked out source tree.
+
+    try:
+        here = os.path.abspath(__file__)
+    except NameError:
+        # some py2exe/bbfreeze/non-CPython implementations don't do __file__
+        return {} # not always correct
+
+    # versionfile_source is the relative path from the top of the source tree
+    # (where the .git directory might live) to this file. Invert this to find
+    # the root from __file__.
+    root = here
+    if IN_LONG_VERSION_PY:
+        for i in range(len(versionfile_source.split("/"))):
+            root = os.path.dirname(root)
+    else:
+        root = os.path.dirname(here)
+    if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(root, ".git")):
+        if verbose:
+            print("no .git in %s" % root)
+        return {}
+
+    GIT = "git"
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        GIT = "git.cmd"
+    stdout = run_command([GIT, "describe", "--tags", "--dirty", "--always"],
+                         cwd=root)
+    if stdout is None:
+        return {}
+    if not stdout.startswith(tag_prefix):
+        if verbose:
+            print("tag '%s' doesn't start with prefix '%s'" % (stdout, tag_prefix))
+        return {}
+    tag = stdout[len(tag_prefix):]
+    stdout = run_command([GIT, "rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=root)
+    if stdout is None:
+        return {}
+    full = stdout.strip()
+    if tag.endswith("-dirty"):
+        full += "-dirty"
+    return {"version": tag, "full": full}
+
+
+def versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose=False):
+    if IN_LONG_VERSION_PY:
+        # We're running from _version.py. If it's from a source tree
+        # (execute-in-place), we can work upwards to find the root of the
+        # tree, and then check the parent directory for a version string. If
+        # it's in an installed application, there's no hope.
+        try:
+            here = os.path.abspath(__file__)
+        except NameError:
+            # py2exe/bbfreeze/non-CPython don't have __file__
+            return {} # without __file__, we have no hope
+        # versionfile_source is the relative path from the top of the source
+        # tree to _version.py. Invert this to find the root from __file__.
+        root = here
+        for i in range(len(versionfile_source.split("/"))):
+            root = os.path.dirname(root)
+    else:
+        # we're running from versioneer.py, which means we're running from
+        # the setup.py in a source tree. sys.argv[0] is setup.py in the root.
+        here = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])
+        root = os.path.dirname(here)
+
+    # Source tarballs conventionally unpack into a directory that includes
+    # both the project name and a version string.
+    dirname = os.path.basename(root)
+    if not dirname.startswith(parentdir_prefix):
+        if verbose:
+            print("guessing rootdir is '%s', but '%s' doesn't start with prefix '%s'" %
+                  (root, dirname, parentdir_prefix))
+        return None
+    return {"version": dirname[len(parentdir_prefix):], "full": ""}
+
+tag_prefix = ""
+parentdir_prefix = "leap.soledad.server-"
+versionfile_source = "src/leap/soledad/server/_version.py"
+
+def get_versions(default={"version": "unknown", "full": ""}, verbose=False):
+    variables = { "refnames": git_refnames, "full": git_full }
+    ver = versions_from_expanded_variables(variables, tag_prefix, verbose)
+    if not ver:
+        ver = versions_from_vcs(tag_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose)
+    if not ver:
+        ver = versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, versionfile_source,
+                                      verbose)
+    if not ver:
+        ver = default
+    return ver
+
diff --git a/server/versioneer.py b/server/versioneer.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b43ab062
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/versioneer.py
@@ -0,0 +1,679 @@
+#! /usr/bin/python
+
+"""versioneer.py
+
+(like a rocketeer, but for versions)
+
+* https://github.com/warner/python-versioneer
+* Brian Warner
+* License: Public Domain
+* Version: 0.7+
+
+This file helps distutils-based projects manage their version number by just
+creating version-control tags.
+
+For developers who work from a VCS-generated tree (e.g. 'git clone' etc),
+each 'setup.py version', 'setup.py build', 'setup.py sdist' will compute a
+version number by asking your version-control tool about the current
+checkout. The version number will be written into a generated _version.py
+file of your choosing, where it can be included by your __init__.py
+
+For users who work from a VCS-generated tarball (e.g. 'git archive'), it will
+compute a version number by looking at the name of the directory created when
+te tarball is unpacked. This conventionally includes both the name of the
+project and a version number.
+
+For users who work from a tarball built by 'setup.py sdist', it will get a
+version number from a previously-generated _version.py file.
+
+As a result, loading code directly from the source tree will not result in a
+real version. If you want real versions from VCS trees (where you frequently
+update from the upstream repository, or do new development), you will need to
+do a 'setup.py version' after each update, and load code from the build/
+directory.
+
+You need to provide this code with a few configuration values:
+
+ versionfile_source:
+    A project-relative pathname into which the generated version strings
+    should be written. This is usually a _version.py next to your project's
+    main __init__.py file. If your project uses src/myproject/__init__.py,
+    this should be 'src/myproject/_version.py'. This file should be checked
+    in to your VCS as usual: the copy created below by 'setup.py
+    update_files' will include code that parses expanded VCS keywords in
+    generated tarballs. The 'build' and 'sdist' commands will replace it with
+    a copy that has just the calculated version string.
+
+ versionfile_build:
+    Like versionfile_source, but relative to the build directory instead of
+    the source directory. These will differ when your setup.py uses
+    'package_dir='. If you have package_dir={'myproject': 'src/myproject'},
+    then you will probably have versionfile_build='myproject/_version.py' and
+    versionfile_source='src/myproject/_version.py'.
+
+ tag_prefix: a string, like 'PROJECTNAME-', which appears at the start of all
+             VCS tags. If your tags look like 'myproject-1.2.0', then you
+             should use tag_prefix='myproject-'. If you use unprefixed tags
+             like '1.2.0', this should be an empty string.
+
+ parentdir_prefix: a string, frequently the same as tag_prefix, which
+                   appears at the start of all unpacked tarball filenames. If
+                   your tarball unpacks into 'myproject-1.2.0', this should
+                   be 'myproject-'.
+
+To use it:
+
+ 1: include this file in the top level of your project
+ 2: make the following changes to the top of your setup.py:
+     import versioneer
+     versioneer.versionfile_source = 'src/myproject/_version.py'
+     versioneer.versionfile_build = 'myproject/_version.py'
+     versioneer.tag_prefix = '' # tags are like 1.2.0
+     versioneer.parentdir_prefix = 'myproject-' # dirname like 'myproject-1.2.0'
+ 3: add the following arguments to the setup() call in your setup.py:
+     version=versioneer.get_version(),
+     cmdclass=versioneer.get_cmdclass(),
+ 4: run 'setup.py update_files', which will create _version.py, and will
+    modify your __init__.py to define __version__ (by calling a function
+    from _version.py)
+ 5: modify your MANIFEST.in to include versioneer.py
+ 6: add both versioneer.py and the generated _version.py to your VCS
+"""
+
+import os, sys, re
+from distutils.core import Command
+from distutils.command.sdist import sdist as _sdist
+from distutils.command.build import build as _build
+
+versionfile_source = None
+versionfile_build = None
+tag_prefix = None
+parentdir_prefix = None
+
+VCS = "git"
+IN_LONG_VERSION_PY = False
+
+
+LONG_VERSION_PY = '''
+IN_LONG_VERSION_PY = True
+# This file helps to compute a version number in source trees obtained from
+# git-archive tarball (such as those provided by githubs download-from-tag
+# feature). Distribution tarballs (build by setup.py sdist) and build
+# directories (produced by setup.py build) will contain a much shorter file
+# that just contains the computed version number.
+
+# This file is released into the public domain. Generated by
+# versioneer-0.7+ (https://github.com/warner/python-versioneer)
+
+# these strings will be replaced by git during git-archive
+git_refnames = "%(DOLLAR)sFormat:%%d%(DOLLAR)s"
+git_full = "%(DOLLAR)sFormat:%%H%(DOLLAR)s"
+
+
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+def run_command(args, cwd=None, verbose=False):
+    try:
+        # remember shell=False, so use git.cmd on windows, not just git
+        p = subprocess.Popen(args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, cwd=cwd)
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        e = sys.exc_info()[1]
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to run %%s" %% args[0])
+            print(e)
+        return None
+    stdout = p.communicate()[0].strip()
+    if sys.version >= '3':
+        stdout = stdout.decode()
+    if p.returncode != 0:
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to run %%s (error)" %% args[0])
+        return None
+    return stdout
+
+
+import sys
+import re
+import os.path
+
+def get_expanded_variables(versionfile_source):
+    # the code embedded in _version.py can just fetch the value of these
+    # variables. When used from setup.py, we don't want to import
+    # _version.py, so we do it with a regexp instead. This function is not
+    # used from _version.py.
+    variables = {}
+    try:
+        f = open(versionfile_source,"r")
+        for line in f.readlines():
+            if line.strip().startswith("git_refnames ="):
+                mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                if mo:
+                    variables["refnames"] = mo.group(1)
+            if line.strip().startswith("git_full ="):
+                mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                if mo:
+                    variables["full"] = mo.group(1)
+        f.close()
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        pass
+    return variables
+
+def versions_from_expanded_variables(variables, tag_prefix, verbose=False):
+    refnames = variables["refnames"].strip()
+    if refnames.startswith("$Format"):
+        if verbose:
+            print("variables are unexpanded, not using")
+        return {} # unexpanded, so not in an unpacked git-archive tarball
+    refs = set([r.strip() for r in refnames.strip("()").split(",")])
+    # starting in git-1.8.3, tags are listed as "tag: foo-1.0" instead of
+    # just "foo-1.0". If we see a "tag: " prefix, prefer those.
+    TAG = "tag: "
+    tags = set([r[len(TAG):] for r in refs if r.startswith(TAG)])
+    if not tags:
+        # Either we're using git < 1.8.3, or there really are no tags. We use
+        # a heuristic: assume all version tags have a digit. The old git %%d
+        # expansion behaves like git log --decorate=short and strips out the
+        # refs/heads/ and refs/tags/ prefixes that would let us distinguish
+        # between branches and tags. By ignoring refnames without digits, we
+        # filter out many common branch names like "release" and
+        # "stabilization", as well as "HEAD" and "master".
+        tags = set([r for r in refs if re.search(r'\d', r)])
+        if verbose:
+            print("discarding '%%s', no digits" %% ",".join(refs-tags))
+    if verbose:
+        print("likely tags: %%s" %% ",".join(sorted(tags)))
+    for ref in sorted(tags):
+        # sorting will prefer e.g. "2.0" over "2.0rc1"
+        if ref.startswith(tag_prefix):
+            r = ref[len(tag_prefix):]
+            if verbose:
+                print("picking %%s" %% r)
+            return { "version": r,
+                     "full": variables["full"].strip() }
+    # no suitable tags, so we use the full revision id
+    if verbose:
+        print("no suitable tags, using full revision id")
+    return { "version": variables["full"].strip(),
+             "full": variables["full"].strip() }
+
+def versions_from_vcs(tag_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose=False):
+    # this runs 'git' from the root of the source tree. That either means
+    # someone ran a setup.py command (and this code is in versioneer.py, so
+    # IN_LONG_VERSION_PY=False, thus the containing directory is the root of
+    # the source tree), or someone ran a project-specific entry point (and
+    # this code is in _version.py, so IN_LONG_VERSION_PY=True, thus the
+    # containing directory is somewhere deeper in the source tree). This only
+    # gets called if the git-archive 'subst' variables were *not* expanded,
+    # and _version.py hasn't already been rewritten with a short version
+    # string, meaning we're inside a checked out source tree.
+
+    try:
+        here = os.path.abspath(__file__)
+    except NameError:
+        # some py2exe/bbfreeze/non-CPython implementations don't do __file__
+        return {} # not always correct
+
+    # versionfile_source is the relative path from the top of the source tree
+    # (where the .git directory might live) to this file. Invert this to find
+    # the root from __file__.
+    root = here
+    if IN_LONG_VERSION_PY:
+        for i in range(len(versionfile_source.split("/"))):
+            root = os.path.dirname(root)
+    else:
+        root = os.path.dirname(here)
+    if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(root, ".git")):
+        if verbose:
+            print("no .git in %%s" %% root)
+        return {}
+
+    GIT = "git"
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        GIT = "git.cmd"
+    stdout = run_command([GIT, "describe", "--tags", "--dirty", "--always"],
+                         cwd=root)
+    if stdout is None:
+        return {}
+    if not stdout.startswith(tag_prefix):
+        if verbose:
+            print("tag '%%s' doesn't start with prefix '%%s'" %% (stdout, tag_prefix))
+        return {}
+    tag = stdout[len(tag_prefix):]
+    stdout = run_command([GIT, "rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=root)
+    if stdout is None:
+        return {}
+    full = stdout.strip()
+    if tag.endswith("-dirty"):
+        full += "-dirty"
+    return {"version": tag, "full": full}
+
+
+def versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose=False):
+    if IN_LONG_VERSION_PY:
+        # We're running from _version.py. If it's from a source tree
+        # (execute-in-place), we can work upwards to find the root of the
+        # tree, and then check the parent directory for a version string. If
+        # it's in an installed application, there's no hope.
+        try:
+            here = os.path.abspath(__file__)
+        except NameError:
+            # py2exe/bbfreeze/non-CPython don't have __file__
+            return {} # without __file__, we have no hope
+        # versionfile_source is the relative path from the top of the source
+        # tree to _version.py. Invert this to find the root from __file__.
+        root = here
+        for i in range(len(versionfile_source.split("/"))):
+            root = os.path.dirname(root)
+    else:
+        # we're running from versioneer.py, which means we're running from
+        # the setup.py in a source tree. sys.argv[0] is setup.py in the root.
+        here = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])
+        root = os.path.dirname(here)
+
+    # Source tarballs conventionally unpack into a directory that includes
+    # both the project name and a version string.
+    dirname = os.path.basename(root)
+    if not dirname.startswith(parentdir_prefix):
+        if verbose:
+            print("guessing rootdir is '%%s', but '%%s' doesn't start with prefix '%%s'" %%
+                  (root, dirname, parentdir_prefix))
+        return None
+    return {"version": dirname[len(parentdir_prefix):], "full": ""}
+
+tag_prefix = "%(TAG_PREFIX)s"
+parentdir_prefix = "%(PARENTDIR_PREFIX)s"
+versionfile_source = "%(VERSIONFILE_SOURCE)s"
+
+def get_versions(default={"version": "unknown", "full": ""}, verbose=False):
+    variables = { "refnames": git_refnames, "full": git_full }
+    ver = versions_from_expanded_variables(variables, tag_prefix, verbose)
+    if not ver:
+        ver = versions_from_vcs(tag_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose)
+    if not ver:
+        ver = versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, versionfile_source,
+                                      verbose)
+    if not ver:
+        ver = default
+    return ver
+
+'''
+
+
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+def run_command(args, cwd=None, verbose=False):
+    try:
+        # remember shell=False, so use git.cmd on windows, not just git
+        p = subprocess.Popen(args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, cwd=cwd)
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        e = sys.exc_info()[1]
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to run %s" % args[0])
+            print(e)
+        return None
+    stdout = p.communicate()[0].strip()
+    if sys.version >= '3':
+        stdout = stdout.decode()
+    if p.returncode != 0:
+        if verbose:
+            print("unable to run %s (error)" % args[0])
+        return None
+    return stdout
+
+
+import sys
+import re
+import os.path
+
+def get_expanded_variables(versionfile_source):
+    # the code embedded in _version.py can just fetch the value of these
+    # variables. When used from setup.py, we don't want to import
+    # _version.py, so we do it with a regexp instead. This function is not
+    # used from _version.py.
+    variables = {}
+    try:
+        f = open(versionfile_source,"r")
+        for line in f.readlines():
+            if line.strip().startswith("git_refnames ="):
+                mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                if mo:
+                    variables["refnames"] = mo.group(1)
+            if line.strip().startswith("git_full ="):
+                mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
+                if mo:
+                    variables["full"] = mo.group(1)
+        f.close()
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        pass
+    return variables
+
+def versions_from_expanded_variables(variables, tag_prefix, verbose=False):
+    refnames = variables["refnames"].strip()
+    if refnames.startswith("$Format"):
+        if verbose:
+            print("variables are unexpanded, not using")
+        return {} # unexpanded, so not in an unpacked git-archive tarball
+    refs = set([r.strip() for r in refnames.strip("()").split(",")])
+    # starting in git-1.8.3, tags are listed as "tag: foo-1.0" instead of
+    # just "foo-1.0". If we see a "tag: " prefix, prefer those.
+    TAG = "tag: "
+    tags = set([r[len(TAG):] for r in refs if r.startswith(TAG)])
+    if not tags:
+        # Either we're using git < 1.8.3, or there really are no tags. We use
+        # a heuristic: assume all version tags have a digit. The old git %d
+        # expansion behaves like git log --decorate=short and strips out the
+        # refs/heads/ and refs/tags/ prefixes that would let us distinguish
+        # between branches and tags. By ignoring refnames without digits, we
+        # filter out many common branch names like "release" and
+        # "stabilization", as well as "HEAD" and "master".
+        tags = set([r for r in refs if re.search(r'\d', r)])
+        if verbose:
+            print("discarding '%s', no digits" % ",".join(refs-tags))
+    if verbose:
+        print("likely tags: %s" % ",".join(sorted(tags)))
+    for ref in sorted(tags):
+        # sorting will prefer e.g. "2.0" over "2.0rc1"
+        if ref.startswith(tag_prefix):
+            r = ref[len(tag_prefix):]
+            if verbose:
+                print("picking %s" % r)
+            return { "version": r,
+                     "full": variables["full"].strip() }
+    # no suitable tags, so we use the full revision id
+    if verbose:
+        print("no suitable tags, using full revision id")
+    return { "version": variables["full"].strip(),
+             "full": variables["full"].strip() }
+
+def versions_from_vcs(tag_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose=False):
+    # this runs 'git' from the root of the source tree. That either means
+    # someone ran a setup.py command (and this code is in versioneer.py, so
+    # IN_LONG_VERSION_PY=False, thus the containing directory is the root of
+    # the source tree), or someone ran a project-specific entry point (and
+    # this code is in _version.py, so IN_LONG_VERSION_PY=True, thus the
+    # containing directory is somewhere deeper in the source tree). This only
+    # gets called if the git-archive 'subst' variables were *not* expanded,
+    # and _version.py hasn't already been rewritten with a short version
+    # string, meaning we're inside a checked out source tree.
+
+    try:
+        here = os.path.abspath(__file__)
+    except NameError:
+        # some py2exe/bbfreeze/non-CPython implementations don't do __file__
+        return {} # not always correct
+
+    # versionfile_source is the relative path from the top of the source tree
+    # (where the .git directory might live) to this file. Invert this to find
+    # the root from __file__.
+    root = os.path.dirname(
+        os.path.join('..', here))
+    if IN_LONG_VERSION_PY:
+        for i in range(len(versionfile_source.split("/"))):
+            root = os.path.dirname(root)
+    else:
+        root = os.path.dirname(
+            os.path.join('..', here))
+
+    ######################################################
+    # XXX patch for our specific configuration with
+    # the three projects leap.soledad.{common, client, server}
+    # inside the same repo.
+    ######################################################
+    root = os.path.dirname(os.path.join('..', root))
+
+    if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(root, ".git")):
+        if verbose:
+            print("no .git in %s" % root)
+        return {}
+
+    GIT = "git"
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        GIT = "git.cmd"
+    stdout = run_command([GIT, "describe", "--tags", "--dirty", "--always"],
+                         cwd=root)
+    if stdout is None:
+        return {}
+    if not stdout.startswith(tag_prefix):
+        if verbose:
+            print("tag '%s' doesn't start with prefix '%s'" % (stdout, tag_prefix))
+        return {}
+    tag = stdout[len(tag_prefix):]
+    stdout = run_command([GIT, "rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=root)
+    if stdout is None:
+        return {}
+    full = stdout.strip()
+    if tag.endswith("-dirty"):
+        full += "-dirty"
+    return {"version": tag, "full": full}
+
+
+def versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose=False):
+    if IN_LONG_VERSION_PY:
+        # We're running from _version.py. If it's from a source tree
+        # (execute-in-place), we can work upwards to find the root of the
+        # tree, and then check the parent directory for a version string. If
+        # it's in an installed application, there's no hope.
+        try:
+            here = os.path.abspath(os.path.join('..', __file__))
+        except NameError:
+            # py2exe/bbfreeze/non-CPython don't have __file__
+            return {} # without __file__, we have no hope
+        # versionfile_source is the relative path from the top of the source
+        # tree to _version.py. Invert this to find the root from __file__.
+        root = here
+        for i in range(len(versionfile_source.split("/"))):
+            root = os.path.dirname(root)
+    else:
+        # we're running from versioneer.py, which means we're running from
+        # the setup.py in a source tree. sys.argv[0] is setup.py in the root.
+        here = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])
+        root = os.path.dirname(here)
+
+    # Source tarballs conventionally unpack into a directory that includes
+    # both the project name and a version string.
+    dirname = os.path.basename(root)
+    if not dirname.startswith(parentdir_prefix):
+        if verbose:
+            print("guessing rootdir is '%s', but '%s' doesn't start with prefix '%s'" %
+                  (root, dirname, parentdir_prefix))
+        return None
+    return {"version": dirname[len(parentdir_prefix):], "full": ""}
+
+import sys
+
+def do_vcs_install(versionfile_source, ipy):
+    GIT = "git"
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        GIT = "git.cmd"
+    run_command([GIT, "add", "versioneer.py"])
+    run_command([GIT, "add", versionfile_source])
+    run_command([GIT, "add", ipy])
+    present = False
+    try:
+        f = open(".gitattributes", "r")
+        for line in f.readlines():
+            if line.strip().startswith(versionfile_source):
+                if "export-subst" in line.strip().split()[1:]:
+                    present = True
+        f.close()
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        pass
+    if not present:
+        f = open(".gitattributes", "a+")
+        f.write("%s export-subst\n" % versionfile_source)
+        f.close()
+        run_command([GIT, "add", ".gitattributes"])
+
+
+SHORT_VERSION_PY = """
+# This file was generated by 'versioneer.py' (0.7+) from
+# revision-control system data, or from the parent directory name of an
+# unpacked source archive. Distribution tarballs contain a pre-generated copy
+# of this file.
+
+version_version = '%(version)s'
+version_full = '%(full)s'
+def get_versions(default={}, verbose=False):
+    return {'version': version_version, 'full': version_full}
+
+"""
+
+DEFAULT = {"version": "unknown", "full": "unknown"}
+
+def versions_from_file(filename):
+    versions = {}
+    try:
+        f = open(filename)
+    except EnvironmentError:
+        return versions
+    for line in f.readlines():
+        mo = re.match("version_version = '([^']+)'", line)
+        if mo:
+            versions["version"] = mo.group(1)
+        mo = re.match("version_full = '([^']+)'", line)
+        if mo:
+            versions["full"] = mo.group(1)
+    f.close()
+    return versions
+
+def write_to_version_file(filename, versions):
+    f = open(filename, "w")
+    f.write(SHORT_VERSION_PY % versions)
+    f.close()
+    print("set %s to '%s'" % (filename, versions["version"]))
+
+
+def get_best_versions(versionfile, tag_prefix, parentdir_prefix,
+                      default=DEFAULT, verbose=False):
+    # returns dict with two keys: 'version' and 'full'
+    #
+    # extract version from first of _version.py, 'git describe', parentdir.
+    # This is meant to work for developers using a source checkout, for users
+    # of a tarball created by 'setup.py sdist', and for users of a
+    # tarball/zipball created by 'git archive' or github's download-from-tag
+    # feature.
+
+    variables = get_expanded_variables(versionfile_source)
+    if variables:
+        ver = versions_from_expanded_variables(variables, tag_prefix)
+        if ver:
+            if verbose: print("got version from expanded variable %s" % ver)
+            return ver
+
+    ver = versions_from_file(versionfile)
+    if ver:
+        if verbose: print("got version from file %s %s" % (versionfile, ver))
+        return ver
+
+    ver = versions_from_vcs(tag_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose)
+    if ver:
+        if verbose: print("got version from git %s" % ver)
+        return ver
+
+    ver = versions_from_parentdir(parentdir_prefix, versionfile_source, verbose)
+    if ver:
+        if verbose: print("got version from parentdir %s" % ver)
+        return ver
+
+    if verbose: print("got version from default %s" % ver)
+    return default
+
+def get_versions(default=DEFAULT, verbose=False):
+    assert versionfile_source is not None, "please set versioneer.versionfile_source"
+    assert tag_prefix is not None, "please set versioneer.tag_prefix"
+    assert parentdir_prefix is not None, "please set versioneer.parentdir_prefix"
+    return get_best_versions(versionfile_source, tag_prefix, parentdir_prefix,
+                             default=default, verbose=verbose)
+def get_version(verbose=False):
+    return get_versions(verbose=verbose)["version"]
+
+class cmd_version(Command):
+    description = "report generated version string"
+    user_options = []
+    boolean_options = []
+    def initialize_options(self):
+        pass
+    def finalize_options(self):
+        pass
+    def run(self):
+        ver = get_version(verbose=True)
+        print("Version is currently: %s" % ver)
+
+
+class cmd_build(_build):
+    def run(self):
+        versions = get_versions(verbose=True)
+        _build.run(self)
+        # now locate _version.py in the new build/ directory and replace it
+        # with an updated value
+        target_versionfile = os.path.join(self.build_lib, versionfile_build)
+        print("UPDATING %s" % target_versionfile)
+        os.unlink(target_versionfile)
+        f = open(target_versionfile, "w")
+        f.write(SHORT_VERSION_PY % versions)
+        f.close()
+
+class cmd_sdist(_sdist):
+    def run(self):
+        versions = get_versions(verbose=True)
+        self._versioneer_generated_versions = versions
+        # unless we update this, the command will keep using the old version
+        self.distribution.metadata.version = versions["version"]
+        return _sdist.run(self)
+
+    def make_release_tree(self, base_dir, files):
+        _sdist.make_release_tree(self, base_dir, files)
+        # now locate _version.py in the new base_dir directory (remembering
+        # that it may be a hardlink) and replace it with an updated value
+        target_versionfile = os.path.join(base_dir, versionfile_source)
+        print("UPDATING %s" % target_versionfile)
+        os.unlink(target_versionfile)
+        f = open(target_versionfile, "w")
+        f.write(SHORT_VERSION_PY % self._versioneer_generated_versions)
+        f.close()
+
+INIT_PY_SNIPPET = """
+from ._version import get_versions
+__version__ = get_versions()['version']
+del get_versions
+"""
+
+class cmd_update_files(Command):
+    description = "modify __init__.py and create _version.py"
+    user_options = []
+    boolean_options = []
+    def initialize_options(self):
+        pass
+    def finalize_options(self):
+        pass
+    def run(self):
+        ipy = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(versionfile_source), "__init__.py")
+        print(" creating %s" % versionfile_source)
+        f = open(versionfile_source, "w")
+        f.write(LONG_VERSION_PY % {"DOLLAR": "$",
+                                   "TAG_PREFIX": tag_prefix,
+                                   "PARENTDIR_PREFIX": parentdir_prefix,
+                                   "VERSIONFILE_SOURCE": versionfile_source,
+                                   })
+        f.close()
+        try:
+            old = open(ipy, "r").read()
+        except EnvironmentError:
+            old = ""
+        if INIT_PY_SNIPPET not in old:
+            print(" appending to %s" % ipy)
+            f = open(ipy, "a")
+            f.write(INIT_PY_SNIPPET)
+            f.close()
+        else:
+            print(" %s unmodified" % ipy)
+        do_vcs_install(versionfile_source, ipy)
+
+def get_cmdclass():
+    return {'version': cmd_version,
+            'update_files': cmd_update_files,
+            'build': cmd_build,
+            'sdist': cmd_sdist,
+            }