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

[Reinhard Tartler]

Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda at deb.at> writes:

>>  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?

That behavior is defined in the svn book.

As already indicated on IRC, patches to the get-orig-source.sh script to
allow specifying a specific svn date with retaining the 'right' revision
of libswscale are appreciated.

All future updates will mention the exact revision in
debian/changelog. Additionally, ffmepg already prints out the used svn
revision on startup:

# ffmpeg -v
FFmpeg version r11872+debian_3:0.svn20080206-13, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al.


If you have patches to further improve the situation, feel free to share
them!

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4