Thanks ! On 15/10/13 22:32, Benjamin Drung wrote: > On Fr, 2013-10-04 at 13:40 +0200, Dominik George wrote: >> Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> schrieb: >>> Then, do you mean that VCS hashes are sortable? >> >> Of course not. One would have to do something like 0~YYYYMMDDnn >> +gitXXXX in that rare case. >> >> My argument for keeping the VCS hash is to ease identifying the code >> in the package. > > You could put the VCS hash as text in the changelog entry, e.g. "New > upstream snapshot (git commit XXXX)." and just use the date as Debian > version (0~YYYYMMDD or 0.YYYYMMDD). In case you need to release two > upstream snapshots on the same date, you can append .2 (0~YYYYMMDD.2). >
I finally asked to the upstream maintainer if he could add a version string suffix to his source tarball name: he did, no more tricks and everything is fine now. Anyway, thanks a lot for all the hints and replies. Best wishes, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/525daf6b.5050...@rezozer.net
