Update DESCRIPTION file and usage of version.

The config script requires the SimpleITK version
and repository. The DESCRIPTION file also requires
the SimpleITK version (mandatory field).

Due to information duplication and independent
updates of both files they diverged. This commit
synchronizes the versioning information. As the
remotes module starts by reading the DESCRIPTION
file, that is where we maintain and update the
versioning information. The configure script
extracts the relevant information from the
DESCRIPTION file.

Author: zivy

DESCRIPTION

@@ -1,20 +1,23 @@
 Package: SimpleITK
-Version: 2.0.0
-Date: 2020-09-17
-Title: Bindings to SimpleITK Image segmentation and registration toolkit
+Version: 2.5.3
+Date: 2025-11-20
+Title: SimpleITK: A Simplified Interface to the Insight Toolkit
 Authors@R: c(person("Richard", "Beare", role = c("aut", "cre"),
                       email = "Richard.Beare@ieee.org"),
                    person("Bradley", "Lowekamp", role = "aut",
                      email = "blowekamp@mail.nih.gov"),
 		     person("Ziv", "Yaniv", role="aut",
-		     email = "zivrafael.yaniv@nih.gov"))
-Author: Richard Beare, Bradley Lowekamp, plus loads of others
+		     email = "zivyaniv@nih.gov"))
+Author: Richard Beare, Bradley Lowekamp, Ziv Yaniv plus loads of others
 Depends: R (>= 3.4)
-Imports: methods
+Imports: methods,
+         desc
 Description: This package is an interface to SimpleITK, which is a simplified
      interface to the Insight Toolkit (ITK) for medical image segmentation
      and registration.
 License: Apache License 2.0
-URL: http://www.simpleitk.org, http://www.itk.org
-BugReports: http://issues.itk.org
+Note: The first url in the URL field below is the SimpleITK repository, and is used
+     by the config script under the assumption that it is the first in the list.
+URL: https://github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITK, https://www.simpleitk.org, https://www.itk.org
+BugReports: https://github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITK/issues
 Maintainer: Richard Beare <Richard.Beare@ieee.org>

configure

@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 #
 # Requires git and cmake
 #
-export SimpleITKGit=https://github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITK
-export SITKTAG=v2.5.3
+export SimpleITKGit=$(Rscript -e "d <- desc::desc(file='DESCRIPTION'); urls <- strsplit(d\$get_field('URL'), ',')[[1]]; cat(trimws(urls[1]))")
+export SITKTAG=v$(Rscript -e "cat(desc::desc_get_field('Version', file='DESCRIPTION'))")
 
 export PKGBASED=$(pwd)
 echo ${PKGBASED}