Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Are we sure historical GIT_VERSION strings never had a SP in it? >> I would be very surprised if we did, but the correctness of the >> approach depends on that assumption. > > Why would that matter? Ah, that is true. What I should have worried more about was the distribution package maintainers who may set their own version by writing it in the "version" file themselves. Thanks.