On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 04:56:14PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 02:43:22PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > The build-version is the current date in UTC in general. This prevents > > the need for finding some way to get a new versionnumber. > > This still leaves us with the problem that we can't see which Source Version > was used. The version number of the binary does not need to be the same as > the source version, as the bash/libreadline example showed (IIRC).
This already happens. libreadline now has its own source package, but for example: Package: alsa-modules-2.2.13 Priority: optional Section: sound Installed-Size: 1541 Maintainer: Masato Taruishi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Source: alsadriver (0.4.1e-7) Version: 0.4.1e-7+2.2.13-1 Note the version number on the Source field. It's generated automatically. Richard Braakman