Re: Tom Russo 2020-02-23 <20200223174551.gd5...@bogodyn.org> > That won't work if you're building the Debian package > out of a tarball (the trick involves looking for a .git directory, and if > found, invoking a git log command to get the current SHA-1).
Fwiw, these tricks are often a PITA for package maintainers, because we keep the packaging also in a git repository, but that one doesn't have any (git) connection to the upstream xastir.git. In many cases, we have to patch the build system not to do these tricks. (Generally, I didn't check if the variant used in xastir is problematic.) Christoph
