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

[Gerfried Fuchs]

* Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org> [2008-09-24 13:17:59 CEST]:
>  So propose a patch to set the timezone before calling svn during
>  get-orig-source?  You're really making up problems here, the packagers
>  knows what he is getting when he prepares the tarball.

 Yes, but it shouldn't be only the packager - and if they know it
shouldn't be too much to ask to put that information into the changelog.
Thanks to Reinhard to have done that for the experimental branch. :)

>  Again, nothing ffmpeg specific here; check the archive, see how many
>  dates are used.  Do everybody a favor and do the discussion at the
>  project or policy level.

 I think I will bring up a proposal that when using dated snapshots
more specific informations pointing to the exact revision/commit
ID/similar means should be put into the changelog, yes.

 For the time being, please accept my excuse for being an annoyance and
accept the attched patch to fix the other things I've noticed. As they
are really tiny I don't even mind not having my name attached to the
changelog entry if you want to strip it. Please notice that this was
done against the current experimental branch r1492 and you propably
might want to push those parts into unstable, too.

 Thanks for not jumping at me even though I deserved it. :)
Rhonda
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