From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: What should PACKAGE_VERSION be set to for guile-2.0? Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:18:24 -0600 Message-ID: <87wrasiq0v.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1321946322 12089 80.91.229.12 (22 Nov 2011 07:18:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:18:42 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 22 08:18:38 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RSkck-0000yC-5e for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:18:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51759 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSkci-0000IU-9O for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:18:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58077) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSkcf-0000IP-3p for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:18:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSkce-0002VZ-2D for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:18:29 -0500 Original-Received: from defaultvalue.org ([70.85.129.156]:58814) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSkcd-0002VJ-VS for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:18:28 -0500 Original-Received: from trouble.defaultvalue.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (Authenticated sender: rlb@defaultvalue.org) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9EE3290D35 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:19:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by trouble.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C18A814E067; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:18:24 -0600 (CST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 70.85.129.156 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:12918 Archived-At: I now maintain the Debian packages as a branch of the Guile Git tree, and was wondering what PACKAGE_VERSION should be set to for guile-2.0 (i.e. what should (version) return, etc.). At the moment, I have the packages adjusted to use build-aux/git-version-gen, but due to the arrangement of the Debian branches, and the way git describe works, that ends up creating versions like this: 2.0.3.2645-9ea53. That didn't seem very useful, and I also wondered if the Debian versions should be distinguished somehow, but I wasn't sure exactly what the expectations were for PACKAGE_VERSION. For example, if the format isn't critical, you could include the Debian revision like this if you wanted to be really specific: 2.0.3-deb+1-2-f727. Of course that "+1-2" could eventually be a lot messier, like "+1-2+squeeze4~bpo50+1" (for a squeeze backport, for example), so you wouldn't want to include the Debian revision unless the format of PACKAGE_VERSION isn't very rigid. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4