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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

I would personally prefer to include the VCS version in the version string.

2016-02-09 9:50 GMT+01:00 Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> Am 09.02.2016 um 09:32 schrieb Jean-Samuel Reynaud:
>
>> As suggested by Wayne, is there any objection if version on daily build
>> PPA become 5.0-alpha-{repo version} or 4.99-alpha-{repo version} ?
>> It will allow daily build to have a higher version number than 4.0.XX
>> version available on distro.
>
> I'd use "{last release}+nightly{date}" until we're officially near a
> release and know whether it will be 5.0 or 4.1, because I fully expect
> that there may be features we'd like to release before 5.0 (the 3D
> rendering improvements, for example).
>
> So while 4.0.1 is current, "4.0.1+nightly20160209" is good as an
> "upstream" version, Debian/Ubuntu can then add "+dfsg" for the removal
> of the files with unclear licensing and "-1" for the package version.
>
> Shortly before the release, it would be okay to switch to
> "5.0~alpha+nightly{date}" style, although there is no real technical
> reason to do so.
>
>    Simon
>
>
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