[arch-general] svn:keywords is not set on newer packages

[Loui Chang]

On Tue 27 Oct 2009 04:39 +0200, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The $Id$ keyword came up while talking with Angel and I realized that
> the svn:keywords property doesn't get set on PKGBUILD for new
> packages, and thus $Id$ doesn't get updated on commit. I believe we
> should fix this, as this information is useful when determining when
> a PKGBUILD was last modified and by whom.
> 
> May I suggest we do the following:
> 
> 1) Edit the "Adding a package" section [1] of the packaging
> instructions in the DeveloperWiki to include this step. (Adding `svn
> propset svn:keywords "Id" new-package/trunk/PKGBUILD' below the
> $EDITOR line perhaps?)
> 2) Add this property to all packages (this has been done once before
> by Aaron, if I remember correctly).
> 
> What's your view on this?

I don't see why we need to taint the source files with these ID tags.
Isn't SVN enough to give us information about our revision history?