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[John Beard <john.j.beard@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Would it be possible to get the ubuntu builds tagged with a commit
hash? Version strings like  201702251416+7735~57~ubuntu16.10.1 are not
very useful if you want to know exactly which commit a build relates
to.

The exact commit is very useful when looking at a bug report from a
nightly. If a regression arises between one nightly and the next, the
date only approximately tells you where to start bisecting.

The Bzr-style rev number is almost entirely useless especially when
the build is also tagged with a date, and Bzr is dead and gone.
Date+git rev give you both an incrementing number for quick
comparisons of age of build, and the git commit is an unambiguous
pointer to the exact commit.

Nearly all "nightly" and "git tracker" pacakges (PPA, AUR, etc) put
the git hash in the build number, pretty much for this exact reason.

Cheers,

John