From 9a521537471bd20fa73ea6efd2952ea53a2a4d50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Laszlo Sarkozi <laszlo.sarkozi@byborgenterprises.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:46:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix: set default version to "dev" and handle version
 retrieval exception

---
 lcov_cobertura/lcov_cobertura.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lcov_cobertura/lcov_cobertura.py b/lcov_cobertura/lcov_cobertura.py
index 394227b..49b9440 100755
--- a/lcov_cobertura/lcov_cobertura.py
+++ b/lcov_cobertura/lcov_cobertura.py
@@ -25,7 +25,11 @@
 else:
     from importlib.metadata import version
 
-__version__ = version('lcov_cobertura')
+__version__ = "dev"
+try:
+    __version__ = version('lcov_cobertura')
+except Exception:
+    pass
 
 CPPFILT = "c++filt"
 HAVE_CPPFILT = False