Doug Goldstein wrote:
> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>>> In my original email, I also suggested this solution, but it seems
>>> that nobody
>>> read it:
>>> ] Alternatively, follow the example of any ebuild that uses a dated
>>> ] patchset, and just have the date of the patchset in the ebuild, and
>>> only
>>> ] increment $PR singly.
>>>
>>> This solution already exists in MANY places in the tree, and should
>>> probably be
>>> preferred over the long $PR or $RC values.
>> Yeah, except revisions are supposed to be for changes to ebuild code,
>> not upstream code.
>>
>> This gets problematic for people trying to report bugs to upstream,
>> because they and upstream have no idea what code they're actually running.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Donnie
> 
> +1
> 
> I agree -r# is for ebuild changes not code changes. I remember a while
> back Portage would constantly use -r# instead of a 4th number and we
> worked at that to change that behavior since it was firmly established
> that -r# was for ebuild changes only. Not bumps in the code.
> 

Yeah stubbs loved that -rX :)
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