Re: [Bug-freedink] Version strings for freedink-data

[Sylvain]

Hi,

On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 03:41:50PM -0700, Dj Padzensky wrote:
> I’m building a package for freedink and freedink-data for HomeBrew,
> and I received the following feedback from the maintainers, which I
> thought I’d pass along.
> 
> In the Makefile for freedink-data, the build date is included in the
> version string.  This is probably not the best idea, since it means
> that my version of freedink-data will appear to be newer than yours,
> simply by virtue of the fact that I happened to type make after you
> did.  It might be a good idea to set your versions to static
> strings.  If you want the build date in there somewhere, then put it
> elsewhere, but part of the version string probably isn’t the best
> place.
> 
> In any case, for HomeBrew, I’m munging the date portion of the
> source directory, and using that in lieu of a build date.

I'm not sure why you need to fiddle with the date at all?

As a package maintainer, you get the latest official release at:
  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freedink/freedink-data-1.08.20170409.tar.gz
(the git repo is the dev version and not suitable for packaging)

Then you install it with:
  make install
or possibly
  make install DESTDIR=$(pwd)/binary-package/

All of these do not involve dates AFAIK, date is only used when a new
official release is made (i.e. by me), or when trying to reproducibly
rebuild the -nosrc tarball.

Can you precise where the date is present for you ?

Cheers!
Sylvain