On 2013-10-04 13:40:29 +0200, Dominik George wrote: > My argument for keeping the VCS hash is to ease identifying the code > in the package.
Does it need to be in the version string? Why not somewhere else? The goal of the Version field in Debian packages is to identify and sort several versions of Debian packages, and also give human-understandable version information (a hash doesn't), not to identify some specific upstream code. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
