Thanks for the advice. Just one more quick question, should I use date of the commit I'm using or the date that I package it? (last commit was roughly 5 months ago)
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Mattia Rizzolo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 24, 2014 1:00 PM, "Benjamin Donald-Wilson" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Christian Kastner <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> If that doesn't work, another possibility would be to create a mock > >> version number based on the date, for example > YYYYMMDD.{7-digit-commit-ID}. > >> > > So I will most likely go with this option and build the package > tomorrow. > > > > Consider using 0+gitYYYYMMDD.commitID > > So if upstream start tagging their release will be simpler. >

