Re: GitHub is a terrible upstream

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On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 08:10:14PM +0200, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 11:45 -0600, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:08:05 -0600
> > Orion Poplawski <orion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > %global commit bd245c9
> > > 
> > > Source0: 
> > >
> > https://github.com/jukka/pcfi/tarball/%{commit}/jukka-pcfi-%{commit}.tar.gz
> > > 
> > > %setup -q -n jukka-pcfi-%{commit}
> > 
> > I do not understand how this is supposed to work in the face of
> > "yum update". 
> 
> But if you read his email carefully, Orion isn't speaking about the
> version.
> So commit will be bd245c9 but the version might very well be
> 
> Version: 20120613git%{commit}
> 
> and as long as the date gets updated, yum will be happy with it.
> 
Also, probably want to keep all of this out of the version field.  The
Guidelines say to stick it in release.

Putting it in Version: runs the risk of upstream making a release like 1.0
which would then sort lower than the date (20120613).

-Toshio

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