URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67933>
Summary: Misleading .tarball-version and .version files in
1.24.0.rc1
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: cjwatson
Submitted: Mon 19 Jan 2026 12:34:45 PM UTC
Category: None
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Unlocked
Planned Release: None
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Date: Mon 19 Jan 2026 12:34:45 PM UTC By: Colin Watson <cjwatson>
The groff 1.24.0.rc1 tarball has these rather misleading files:
$ cat .version
1.23.0.rc1.1418-3e78f-dirty
$ cat .tarball-version
1.23.0.5077-7dcc8
This confused my Debian packaging, which expects to be able to derive the
upstream version from .tarball-version; build-aux/git-version-gen describes
this file as "[containing] the version number assigned by the maintainer", so
that seems like a legitimate thing to do. Of course I can easily override
that, but perhaps you might like to arrange that whatever generates these
files does a better job with pre-releases.
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