Package: devscripts Version: 2.15.10 Severity: wishlist Usertags: uscan In the Go Packaging Team[1], we face the issue that the Golang community does not tag releases for library packages. This practice is encouraged by the golang tools and by the community. Whether that is a good thing or not is the subject of a broader discussion.
When used with git mode, I would like for uscan to generate a version number even though the repository is not tagged. One of our tools, dh-make-golang, is able to do this. For example: "0.0~git20151028.0.2a60fc2-1": - 0.0 is the latest tag. If there are no tags found, 0.0 is the default. - git20151028 represents the date of the last commit - 0 represents the number of commits that day (counting from 0) - 2a60fc2 is the commit id It does not have to be this exact versioning scheme, others can work too. I have done a quick research and it looks like this can be done with a combination of git ls-remote, downloading the last object, and parsing it for the date. This would help us a great deal to keep up with our packages, and would surely be useful for other teams/packages. This was discussed in dh-make-golang's issue tracker (adding Michael to CC as he has expressed a friend of his would like to code this): - https://github.com/Debian/dh-make-golang/issues/8 [1]: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-go-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org Cheers, -- Alexandre Viau av...@debian.org
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