tl;dr please support uversionmangle after pretty= We have a few reasonably common variations of combined tag and date versions in debian, sometimes including the hash. From discussing in #debian-mentors this is currently only possible in two ways:
* pretty=1.2.3+%cd.%h (e.g. libretro-nestopia)
as suggested above by yadd, but hardcoded and will miss newer tags
* dversionmangle=s/\+git\d+$// (e.g. cegui-mk2)
maintainer manually downloads snapshot and appends date to d/changelog
Since git 2.35 (bullseye-backports) this pretty syntax is possible, and
works today in uscan but has some drawbacks:
opts="mode=git, gitmode=full, pretty=%(describe:abbrev=0)+%cd"
It results in a string like "version-0.4.4+20241227" and for some reason
uversionmangle=s/version-// has no effect. It also only works on
Annotated tags, "describe:tags=true,abbrev=0" should fix that, but opts=
comma parsing splits it first and I can't find a way to escape it. So I
think that if uversionmangle worked then "describe:tags=true" would be
fine and the abbrev=0 could be replicated with sed.
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