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

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

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