[Pkg-julia-devel] Julia 0.3.12

[Peter Colberg]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 04:13:30PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> I've just noticed julia 0.3.12 now shows the git commit date.
> 
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>    _       _ _(_)_     |  A fresh approach to technical computing
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>   | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 0.3.12 (2015-10-26 12:41 UTC)
>  _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |
> |__/                   |  x86_64-linux-gnu
> 
> This shouldn't affect reproducibility.
> It seems to have been caused by the new file 'base/version_git.jl'.
> i.e. removing that file causes only 'Version 0.3.12' to be displayed.
> 
> Do we want to display this?

Yes, this is in fact the behaviour when compiling from the "full"
upstream tarball (for version 0.4.0). Prior Debian versions had
faulty git information, either containing only empty strings or
pointing to the commit of the Debian package repository.

Base.GIT_VERSION_INFO now provides valid version information.

Peter