>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> Also if he finally refuses this, should I repackage
>>> orig.tar.gz without CVS dirs or should I leave them, as he has
>>> asked, in order to let also debian people to try his
>>> "debugging method" (of course after an apt-get source, at
>>> least...). [...]
Brian> His "debugging method" may not build the package correctly,
[...]
Perhaps an alternative suggestion could be told to the upstram author:
put in file foo.c
const char foo_ident[] = "$Id$";
in file bar.c
const char bar_ident[] = "$Id$";
in file header.h
#define HEADER_IDENT "$Id$"
and have the main file (or even a specially generated one) doing
void say_version(void) {
printf("XXX utility release 3.14: detailed version id\n"
"header: %s\n"
"foo: %s\n"
"bar: %s\n"
""\n,
HEADER_IDENT,
foo_ident,
bar_ident);
} /*end of say_version*/
actually, one could even generate the version.c file containing above
function say_version, with additional stuff like build date, build
system version, etc... This is just a matter of a fancy Makefile rule
For what it is worth, I think that one of PRCS (an opensource
version manager, a bit like RCS ou CVS) significant strengths is it
handling of keywords -and also the $Format$ utility- and the fact that
all files are versionned at once.
Sorry for being a little bit off topic.
Regards.
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