[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: do not update pkgver when building source package

[Aaron Griffin]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> Dan McGee wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> When making a source package for a SCM PKGBUILD, makepkg should not
>>>> update the pkgver/pkgrel.  Noted in FS#14456.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I saw your comment on this, and was a bit unsure about it. Although
>>> the version doesn't have the same meaning on an SCM package, doesn't
>>> it still have some meaning in telling us when the source package was
>>> built?
>>>
>>
>> My thinking is that the packager would only know that the package works with
>> the current pkgver and not with any updated one.
>
> That is in fact much more sound logic. If there are no other
> objections I'm fine with this too. Who am I kidding? Barely anyone
> reads this list. :P

I do! And I'm fine with it.