Re: Preferred version format for svn revisions?

[Guido Loupias <guidoloupias@gmail.com>]

Sandro Tosi schreef:
> On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 10:45, Guido Loupias <guidoloupias@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Could someone tell me if there is a preferred version format for svn
> > revisions?
> > Right now I have something like <latestupstreamversion>+svn<revisionnumber>.
>
> Here[1] you can find some information on this item, and on writing
> get-orig-source debian/rules target.
Is the get-orig-source rule really necessary? From what I can see all it does is 
grab the same svn revision that's already in the .orig.tar.gz. Am I missing 
something? My .orig.tar.gz is also of the version format 
<latestupstreamversion>+svn<revisionnumber>. Is this wrong then?

> [1] http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi/Svn_get-orig-source
>
> Kindly,