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

Wed Sep 24 09:06:47 UTC 2008

Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> writes:

> Maybe we should really change the version scheme to the SVN revision. 
> To avoid (or add) confusion we could add another number for 
> libswscale, i.e. something like "0.svn.r15219" for libav* and 
> "o.svn.r15129.r1234" for libswscale.

AFAIUI the plan upstream is to merge the libswscale in the ffmpeg
repository, which means a rewrite of the svn history. This will make
this unnecessary.

OTOH, I find ".svn.rFOO.rBAR" just ugly :(

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4