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Re: version field when submit to BTS



On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, lumin wrote:

> This is a question about debian bug tracking system.
> In order to use the BTS properly, I have read this page:
> https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
> but I wonder if I can fill in the "Version:"
> field directly with git commit number such as
> ""78a6aac2559648d1a0e0b4926e23aed67d8b81fb".

Technically, you can.  Nothing is stopping you.  It just won't be very
useful to anyone: it won't be a version the BTS will recognize, the BTS
will not be able to compare it with other versions, it will be useless
noise.

In short, please don't.  Use a proper debian package version.
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