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According to Ralf Wildenhues on 11/3/2007 10:28 AM:
> * Jim Meyering wrote on Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 08:45:43AM CET:
>> An alternative is to change the format of the version string, like
>> git does. s/-/./g. They also prepend an alpha ('g') to the SHA1 part.
>
> A small data point: I recall Debian disliking '-' in version strings at
> one point in time, because they like to append their own package version
> with one or more hyphens. Dunno how much that matters any more or at
> all, or if other distros do similar.
True, but since actual distribution tarballs exclude the SHA1 part, and
git snapshots aren't really meant for distros, I see no conflict between
distros that use '-' and undistributed snapshots that use '-'.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@xxxxxxx
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