On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 08:52:19AM +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 09:44:17PM -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > > My intent here was to suggest specifically that the version of form > > > 0.0~git20130606.b00ec39-1 would be elevated as the Policy recommended > > > form, as it makes sense and is already most popular. > > > > For the record, I assume it's most popular because it's the default for > > the uscan "pretty" attribute. > > Indeed: > https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/devscripts/uscan.1.en.html#pretty= > > The default is pretty=0.0~git%cd.%h. > > Thanks for sharing! > > I still think it would be good for the policy to be normative on this > to steer people into using the same format instead of coming up with > their own schemes.
... or alternatively, following the feedback on this bug report, ask devscript to change "pretty" not to include the %h part ? But in general policy should refrain to be normative when there is no sound technical reason. Popularity is not sufficient. One could even argue that there are more technical reasons not to include the hash. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
