On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 01:34:32AM +0100, Samuel Henrique wrote: > Hello Sven, > > I believe the package is a fit for our team yes. > > The repository is created at > https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-security-team/proxytunnel > But before the push I'd like to ask you about the latest upstream > release imported: 1.9.1+git20200123.1.eff4d41 > > What's up with the "1.eff4d41" part? I didn't investigate but I assume > the last one is part of the git commit hash, but I don't know about > the ".1.". > I feel like I'm missing something, generally I prefer to use only a > date for tarballs coming from git snapshots, and I believe they are > more clean, though I recognize it's not as precise as having the > commit id.
Hello Samuel, There is no particular consensus for git-based version numbers. egrep 'Package:|Version:' /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.uk.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-amd64_Packages | grep -B 1 '+git' | less shows a wide variety. But it is very common to include the first 7 characters of the commit id. Best wishes, Julian