> > So you think it's easy to force users to generate a unique version number? > How are you going to do that? If you make a debian developer pass a > special arg, how are you going to keep users from using the same thing? > > Obviously it's not so easy, or it would already be done. >
beyond that, autobuilders (remember those other archs) must be able to build without bumping the version. This means a substantial change in the build tools to force version changing and allow it to be stopped as well.