Hi all, after discussing with some of my coworkers who were adding a few paches to their local package builds, we figured that in their case the SUBVERS field was not being updated as doing so was quite painful. I realized that we simply reached exactly the same situation as the linux kernel where the subversion got filled automatically and it required to append the local version into another string!
In order to simplify this, I added a new EXTRAVERSION variable so that you can simply do this if you're dealing with a local patch queue: $ make TARGET=foo EXTRAVERSION=+$(quilt applied|wc -l) and get: 2.3-dev5-5018aa-15+1 It could also be used to indicate a feature set (e.g. -debug, etc). Since the patch is trivial (it mechanically adds $(EXTRAVERSION) after all $(SUBVERS)), I was wondering if there's any interest for distro maintainers in it being backported, and if so, how far. Those interested, please just let me know. Willy
