Re: Binary only Recompilations

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

At 14:43 +0100 1999-12-11, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>What I plan to do for woody is add a new Build-Version field. So
>you get:
>
>  Package: foo
>  Version: 1.2-2
>  Build-Version: 199912111340
>
>The build-version is the current date in UTC in general. This prevents
>the need for finding some way to get a new versionnumber.

I'd suggest "Build-Serial" or "Build-Time" for the name of the field.
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy)                    Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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