I now maintain the Debian packages as a branch of the Guile Git tree, and was wondering what PACKAGE_VERSION should be set to for guile-2.0 (i.e. what should (version) return, etc.).
At the moment, I have the packages adjusted to use build-aux/git-version-gen, but due to the arrangement of the Debian branches, and the way git describe works, that ends up creating versions like this: 2.0.3.2645-9ea53. That didn't seem very useful, and I also wondered if the Debian versions should be distinguished somehow, but I wasn't sure exactly what the expectations were for PACKAGE_VERSION. For example, if the format isn't critical, you could include the Debian revision like this if you wanted to be really specific: 2.0.3-deb+1-2-f727. Of course that "+1-2" could eventually be a lot messier, like "+1-2+squeeze4~bpo50+1" (for a squeeze backport, for example), so you wouldn't want to include the Debian revision unless the format of PACKAGE_VERSION isn't very rigid. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4
