[aur-general] Revise VCS packages versioning

[Doug Newgard]

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> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 21:49:11 -0700
> From: anatol.pomozov at gmail.com
> To: aur-general at archlinux.org
> Subject: Re: [aur-general] Revise VCS packages versioning
>
> Hi
>
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Jerome Leclanche <adys.wh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As someone who maintains a lot of git packages, I wish, I really wish
>> there was a *standardized* way of writing a pkgver that would output
>> the appropriate format whether there are tags pushed upstream or not.
>
> That is what I intended to propose next.
>
> As the regexp become more complicated it is better if makepkg will
> take care of generating the package version. I think makepkg should
> have a shell function, something like 'generate_pkgver_vcs()' that
> user can use in pkgver().
>
> e.g.
>
> pkgver() {
> cd repo
> generate_pkgver_vcs()
> }
>
> This function will
> 1) Find what VCS is used
> 2) Generate appropriate VCS version
>

Very, very bad idea. Every repo is different, the flexibility of the pkgver function lets the maintainer adapt to that. This was one of the major new features in pacman/makepkg 4.1. To be very blunt, if you can't figure out basic scripting enough to write a coherent pkgver function, you don't really have any business maintaining PKGBUILDs.

The last thing we want it to go back to how it was done in < 4.1.