Re: how do deal with versionless mercurial software ?
On Fr, 2013-10-04 at 13:40 +0200, Dominik George wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> schrieb:
> >Then, do you mean that VCS hashes are sortable?
>
> Of course not. One would have to do something like 0~YYYYMMDDnn
> +gitXXXX in that rare case.
>
> My argument for keeping the VCS hash is to ease identifying the code
> in the package.
You could put the VCS hash as text in the changelog entry, e.g. "New
upstream snapshot (git commit XXXX)." and just use the date as Debian
version (0~YYYYMMDD or 0.YYYYMMDD). In case you need to release two
upstream snapshots on the same date, you can append .2 (0~YYYYMMDD.2).
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Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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