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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add openfwwf-firmware.
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 23:13:53 -0500
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On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 09:14:31PM -0600, Eric Bavier wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:04:30 -0500
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> > > +      (version (string-append "20140625-" rev "." (string-take commit 7)))  
> > 
> > Is the timestamp some kind of upstream version string? If not, and there
> > is no upstream version naming, we should use 0.0.0, right?
> 
> This package contains a collections of tools, only one of which
> declares any sort of version (fwcutter).  I had gathered that the
> date-string approach was acceptable for VCS checkouts when versions are
> otherwise not available.  We have 34 other packages whose version begin
> with such a date-string (e.g. guile-minikanren, scmutils,
> guile-for-guile-emacs, guile-emacs, woff2, font-google-noto, ...).

Okay, no strong opinion here :)

Thanks for writing this package!