Hi, On 2020-11-30 13:44, Maarten L. Hekkelman wrote: > I'm preparing another package and this one has a dependency on a library > found on github. The library, a C++ implementation of the NEWUOA > algorithm, comes with a MIT license but has no tag or version number at > github. > > I tried contacting the original author but suppose no answer comes in, > is it acceptable to have a Debian package without an upstream version > number? The watch file would then also remain empty?
This is not uncommon, at least from my experience :) uscan knows how to download source directly from git, and it puts date + git commit as a version number. For example, you may give a look at the packaging of libsignatures-java [1]. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/libsignatures-java Best, Andrius
