Hello, On 04/10/13 13:50, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2013-10-04 13:40:29 +0200, Dominik George wrote: >> My argument for keeping the VCS hash is to ease identifying the code >> in the package. > > Does it need to be in the version string? > Why not somewhere else? > > The goal of the Version field in Debian packages is to identify > and sort several versions of Debian packages, and also give > human-understandable version information (a hash doesn't), not > to identify some specific upstream code.
For Mercurial VCS, date can be used as kind of hash: see the ``orig.tar from mercurial checkout'' section in wiki.debian.org/onlyjob/get-orig-source hth, Jerome > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
