Package: debian-policy Found: 4.7.0.1 I would like to suggest the Debian Policy to recommend a specific Debian package version string scheme in cases where upstream has no releases, but they do have git commit ids to refer to:
*** In case your upstream does not use version numbers, the Debian package version will look like this: 0.0~git20130606.b00ec39-1 * The 0.0 in the beginning is used to allow upstream to adopt version numbers at any point in time and also to make it clear that no traditional version number is used for this package. * The second part is the version control system, e.g. git, hg, svn. * Afterwards, a date follows in the format YYYYMMDD. * After the dot, the version control system revision follows, to make it clear which commit was packaged, as many repositories have multiple commits on a given day. * The last part after the dash is the Debian version number. In case you make more than one snapshot per day, you can append a snapshot number after the date, e.g. 0.0~git20130606.2.b00ec39-1. This should rarely be necessary. *** The text above is from https://go-team.pages.debian.net/packaging.html but I see also packages outside Go team adhering to this scheme already. ± grep --only-matching -P '/.*0.0~git.*.deb' Packages | head /main/a/arpys/python3-arpys_1.0.0~git20230217101414.07b63b3-2_amd64.deb /main/a/asmjit/libasmjit-dev_0.0~git20231115.1da9e4d-1+b1_amd64.deb /main/c/c-vtapi/libcvtapi-dev_0.0~git20230329.226eda8-1.1+b2_amd64.deb /main/c/c-vtapi/libcvtapi1t64_0.0~git20230329.226eda8-1.1+b2_amd64.deb /main/c/canid/canid_0.0~git20180613.007c9af-2+b28_amd64.deb /main/c/cht.sh/cht.sh_0.0~git20220418.571377f-2_all.deb /main/c/cisco7crack/cisco7crack_0.0~git20121221.f1c21dd-3_amd64.deb /main/c/cl-fiasco/cl-fiasco_0.0~git20200514.bb47d2f-3_all.deb /main/c/cpuinfo/cpuinfo_0.0~git20240830.fa1c679-5_amd64.deb /main/c/cpuinfo/libcpuinfo-dev_0.0~git20240830.fa1c679-5_amd64.deb I am happy to submit an exact patch for the policy to write the final version of the text in the correct place, assuming I see some general support for having this included as replies here.
