Re: [Evolution] Version information when building from git - Was: Many strange errors after upgrading to Evolution 3.24.2?

[Ralf Mardorf <silver bullet zoho com>]

On Wed, 2017-04-26 at 14:13 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 13:17:48 +0200, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2017-04-26 at 09:15 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> > > I'm getting dislike Arch. You surely do not have 3.24.2, that had not
> > > been released yet. 
> >
> > Understand your frustration.. But I see an issue has been created for
> > this..
>
> [snip]
> I edited my comment, the original comment included "Good PKGBUILDs fix
> the version string, when building from git. This for example was always
> done for claws-mail-git from AUR". I removed it from my comment, since
> actually Claws' "About" version string was reformatted by the PKGBUILD,
> but the string by default always included the git commit, it wasn't
> added by the PKGBUILD (the package build script). Maybe the Evolution
> developers could make this the default for Evolution, too, instead of
> expecting that package maintainers do it.
> [snip]

Maybe you could split the difference :) and care about the "premature"
version bump, the maintainers are willing to add the git version.

At https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53840#comment157176 the maintainer
wrote:

"[snip] I could add -DVERSION_SUBSTRING= and/or -DVERSION_COMMENT= to
our PKGBUILD so it includes the git commit or Archlinux pkgver, but I
won't go into git log to find out which commit does a premature version
bump so I can revert that when packaging a branch snapshot."

Regards,
Ralf