[aur-general] Package from official repos build from git, instead of official upstream release - Was: TU Application - Dustin Falgout

[Eli Schwartz]

On 03/02/2016 11:42 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> PS:
> 
> I've got a question regarding the jack2-git package from AUR.
> 
> The maintainer does use
> 
> $ git rev-list --count master
> 3425
> 
> [1], but IMO pkgver should be
> 
> $ git describe|sed -r 's/^v//;s/([^-]*-g)/r\1/;s/-/./g'
> 1.9.10.r177.g7bdad49
> 
> since this is the correct version number, as used by
> https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/jack2/ .
> 
> Is there no recommendation what to use for AUR PKGBUILD pkgver?
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
> 
> [1]
> "pkgver() {
>   cd jack2
>   # get a plain number
>   echo $(git rev-list --count master) 
> }" - https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=jack2-git
> 

That is a super-ugly pkgver which is only supposed to be used as a
method of last resort for packages that have *no* normal pkgver.

You should suggest that the AUR maintainer fix the pkgver (and add an
epoch).

-- 
Eli Schwartz