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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add openfwwf-firmware.
From: |
Leo Famulari |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add openfwwf-firmware. |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 23:13:53 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) |
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 09:14:31PM -0600, Eric Bavier wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:04:30 -0500
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > + (version (string-append "20140625-" rev "." (string-take commit
> > > 7)))
> >
> > Is the timestamp some kind of upstream version string? If not, and there
> > is no upstream version naming, we should use 0.0.0, right?
>
> This package contains a collections of tools, only one of which
> declares any sort of version (fwcutter). I had gathered that the
> date-string approach was acceptable for VCS checkouts when versions are
> otherwise not available. We have 34 other packages whose version begin
> with such a date-string (e.g. guile-minikanren, scmutils,
> guile-for-guile-emacs, guile-emacs, woff2, font-google-noto, ...).
Okay, no strong opinion here :)
Thanks for writing this package!