Re: On release numbering

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Sat, 13 Jul 2024, John Stoffel wrote:

>> gitlab main should have a version number of 8.3.x.

> Awesome.   I'd suggest you/we append the latest git tag/commit number
> into the version string. then it's *really* clear what's happening.  

Does "commit number" mean the commit ID (a string of hexadecimal chars),
or the number of commits since the last release tag (that e.g. occurs in
the output of "git describe")?

If you mean the former, then it may not be possible to use it in distro
packages (because hexadecimal may not be allowed in version numbers).
Also, commit IDs don't monotonically increase, which makes it impossible
to check if the package needs to be updated on a user's system.

Ulrich

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