Re: No upstream versioning

[Benjamin Donald-Wilson <benny@ubuntu.com>]

Thanks for the advice. Just one more quick question, should I use date of the commit I'm using or the date that I package it? (last commit was roughly 5 months ago)

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Mattia Rizzolo <mapreri@ubuntu.com> wrote:

On Apr 24, 2014 1:00 PM, "Benjamin Donald-Wilson" <benny@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Christian Kastner <debian@kvr.at> wrote:

>> If that doesn't work, another possibility would be to create a mock
>> version number based on the date, for example YYYYMMDD.{7-digit-commit-ID}.
>>

> ​So I will most likely go with this option and build the package tomorrow.
>

Consider using 0+gitYYYYMMDD.commitID

So if upstream start tagging their release will be simpler.