Re: Versioning svn checkouts [Was: Re: alpha/beta software in Fedora 8?]

[Petr Machata]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>  I'm saying that srpms have a long live, and that with svn if you
>  request revision $number 5 years later if upstream has re-done its svn
>  in the meanwhile what you'll get is not what you got 5 years before. 
Agreed.  By then the upstream could disappear, migrate to whatever hip
vc system there is in five years, etc.  And maybe I fail to see the
intent behind using the date in release tag of vcs-checkouted package.
Perhaps it's just an arbitrary identifier.  But if the intent is
anything close to making a life easier for whoever reconstructs the
srpm, using the release number makes more sense than the date alone.

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