Bug#499914: ffmpeg: when packaging svn snapshots, please use svn _revision_ instead of date!

[Gerfried Fuchs]

* Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org> [2008-09-23 22:34:50 CEST]:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> >  It's much more natural to use the svn revision number for svn snapshots
> > so one doesn't have to dig out which version from the specific date was
> > used ...
> 
>  I think both are sensible and quite equally split; at least on my
>  system, "apt-cache dumpavail | grep Version:.\*svn" shows a relatively
>  equal number of dates and revisions (slightly more revisions than
>  dates).  When one checks git snapshots, the proportions are in favor of
>  dateS.

 Erm, google ratings never were a really good reasoning or argument for
anything, they are just good for one thing: people like repeating stuff
and often don't think about them.

>  I think dates are useful as well.

 Like mentioned above, dates aren't unique. There were 7 commits done to
the ffmpeg svn on that day, so it's not really clear which revision the
date refers to ...

>  If you need to map dates to revs or vice-versa, you can use svn info on
>  the remote repo.  "svn info -r '{2007-12-01}' svn://..." or "svn info
>  -r 13694 svn://...".

 So it was exactly the last commit from the day before that was used
here? No commit from the day included? Furthermore, I wonder, wouldn't
that approach have a timezone issue and maybe get you different
revisions when being in different timezones?

 So long :)
Rhonda