Re: [PATCH] deian package creation + git tag issue

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Sébastien Gross <address@hidden> wrote:

> By the way the git repository tags release/2.11.53-1 and
> release/2.11.53-2 are both the same and there are not presents in the
> master branch.
> Thus git-describe would find release/2.11.52-1 as most recent version.
> As the package generator uses git tag to get the version, it would be
> better to fix up git tags.

No, this is the wrong approach; you should be packaging the revisions
marked by the tag.  Releases are always done from branches, and
sometimes the fixes for that branch may not have been pushed into
master.


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