On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 21:33 +0100, Petr Machata wrote: > Steve Grubb wrote: > > kdepim-enterprise-svn20070926.tar.bz2 > > As a side note, I always wondered why to use date in the release tag of > package, whose sources come from non-cvs versioning system. For svn, in > my opinion, it would make more sense to use the tree revision number; > for git, similarly, sha1 id of the tree. > > Could the guideline [1] wording be adjusted to point packagers towards > those less ambiguous identifiers? Or maybe the intention of the release > tag is not so much to be truly non-ambiguous about the actual origin of > the sources, as rather to give a rough idea when was the commit done? Look down one item on the same page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#SnapshotPackages We explicitly say that tree revision numbers can be used in addition to the date, but we do want to keep the date in there. ~spot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
