Re: how do deal with versionless mercurial software ?
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Wookey <wookey@wookware.org> schrieb:
>+++ 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
>From a power-user point of view, I want to see what version of a package is in Debian by looking through the package lists, without having to download the source package or some other awkward steps.
A packager might package a 3 year old commit now, and use today's date as version. You see that it does not serve identifying upstream version in any way, it's just a useless piece of information.
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