Re: Doubts in Sigar packaging
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 03:18:20PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
[...]
> I recommend against using dates to mark revisions, since there probably
> will be multiple commits in a single day, so there is no way to tell
> which exactly version you did package.
[...]
On one project where I'm upstream (not packaged for Debian
currently), I use seconds since the epoch from the last git commit
for a minor versioning component on tarballed development snapshots,
which at least reduces this problem down to multiple commits within
the same second rather than within the same day. On my project,
there's not enough churn to make this a relevant concern for now, I
don't care about human readability, and it's only an extra two
digits more than you need for an ISO 8601 date.
One related concern for some projects, however, is whether releasing
from different, out-of-sync VCS branches could make timestamp-only
version numbers appear to skip backwards under such a scheme. Making
sure your major version numbers are human-assigned is an important
component, obviously. ;)
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