Hello, On Wed 13 Aug 2025 at 12:07pm +01, Ian Jackson wrote:
> However, I'm not convinced that sorting by version number here is > right, in any case. If there are multiple tags, why wouldn't we > prefer the latest one by tag date? > > Empirically, git log --pretty=format:%D prints tags for the same > commit in tagger date order, so we could just take the last. I think you might have misread the code slightly. Rather than only comparing multiple tags on the same commit, the git log command in find_last_tag returns all tags *reachable* from $branch_commit, and then picks the one with the latest version number. I am not sure whether latest tag by tagger date or Debian version number would be more useful and/or principled so I suggest we just fix this bug for now. I've submitted an MR to that effect. -- Sean Whitton
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