Re: What is +gh? (WAS Re: [DRE-maint] ruby-em-redis_0.3.0+gh-1_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into unstable, unstable)
Hello,
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Per Andersson <avtobiff@gmail.com> wrote:
> (Answering on-list.)
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Pirate Praveen <pravi.a@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2014-04-29 2:16 GMT+05:30, Per Andersson <avtobiff@gmail.com>:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> What does +gh in the version mean? :-)
>>
>> To show we are using gihub tarballs instead of gem file as source
>> (mostly for including tests)
This information belongs in debian/README.source or even
debian/copyright, but not in the version number, especially since it
is completely opaque to our users.
Cheers,
Vincent
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