Created attachment 1259 [details] make git version consistent Default abbreviated commit hash has seven digids: $ git log -1 --format="%h" be58b45 $ git describe 3.9.0-197-gbe58b45 But the string used in claws-mail has only six: $ git describe --abbrev=6 --dirty --always 3.9.0-197-gbe58b4 I would like to make this consistent. Sounds crazy, but it took me some time to get the idea why package version and claws-mail version string did not match. :-p
To be honest don't understand much here, let me address some points: * Version _is_ consistent with what git says, just shorter. * Which package version string are you talking about? * And why have we to match with that package version and not the other way round?
Technically the version string used at the moment is just fine, and it is consistent in terms of uniqueness. It is not consistent in terms of the default format used by git for short commit hashes, though. When building binary packages for my system I do use 'git describe' to generate the version string. It's the default with git itself, so I will not change it the other way round. As said, technically it is just fine as is, I just want to match default git behavior.
That response doesn't answer my question and, as of course, it's not a valid reason to change the generated version number.