Otto Kekäläinen <o...@debian.org> writes: >> The commit hash. 007c9af. > > OK, thanks. > > I disagree here - to me the git commit hash is the single most > important identifier for the software version if there are no actual > releases.
FWIW, I used to believe the same but this changed my mind -- gnulib is a rolling stable package with no releases: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1069268#10 I believe versions numbers are for humans; incremental integers, dates and possibly semantic versioning are useful ideas. I don't object to a git commit identifier in a version number, but I also wouldn't want to enforce it as a general rule. For gnulib I settled on recording the full git commit identifier in debian/changelog instead. /Simon
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