On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Sascha Peilicke <speilicke@suse.com> wrote:
5) X+git.1363873583.8dfab15
Albeit you can discuss the format differences, 2) and 3) are much better than 1) since they at least broadly state when the SCM snapshot was taken. 4) Does a better job by providing the commit number/hash but breaks RPM upgradeability. Random commit hashes aren't upgradeable right? So the best version is indeed number 5), where the first number is the commit date and the second one is the commit hash. The date assures upgradability, because it increments always linearly and the commit hash provides for reproducability.
Is that a unix timestamp? IMHO, that's horribly unreadable for any human. What's wrong with ISO? Since you have the hash, you don't even need more than day precision, but if you really wanted, you can add up to seconds. Being able to tell the release date from the version number without aid from a python console would be good, IMHO. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org