On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 21:33 +0100, Petr Machata wrote:
Steve Grubb wrote:
> kdepim-enterprise-svn20070926.tar.bz2
As a side note, I always wondered why to use date in the release tag of
package, whose sources come from non-cvs versioning system. For svn, in
my opinion, it would make more sense to use the tree revision number;
for git, similarly, sha1 id of the tree.
Could the guideline [1] wording be adjusted to point packagers towards
those less ambiguous identifiers? Or maybe the intention of the release
tag is not so much to be truly non-ambiguous about the actual origin of
the sources, as rather to give a rough idea when was the commit done?
Look down one item on the same page:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#SnapshotPackages
We explicitly say that tree revision numbers can be used in addition to
the date, but we do want to keep the date in there.
~spot