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Re: how do deal with versionless mercurial software ?



+++ Dominik George [2013-10-02 16:23 +0200]:
> 
> >0~YYYYMMDD
> >
> >should be fine.
> 
> It isn't, it is not a unique identifier for the one "release" you are packaging.

No, but it can be a sufficient identifier so long as you don't make more
than one release a day.

Which exact tag/branch/hash/whatever was used for the orig tarball can be
recorded elsewhere in the release. It doesn't have to go in the
version number - that's a decision for the packager.

Wookey
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