Re: [PATCH] rpmbuild doesn't like '-' in version strings

John Ellson [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

...  In that
sense, maybe leaving the interim version unbuildable for binary
packaging might be considered a feature.

What happened to this?

I consider leaving the interim version unbuildable for binary packaging
consider a feature.

If you want to build your own version, I think you could locally
tag that head and build, like:

	$ git tag -a "John's GIT 1.1.2+frotz patch" v1.1.2.John0114
	$ make rpmbuild

Of course you can keep a patch with the sed -e 's/-/_/' in
GIT-VERSION-GEN as Linus suggested in your development branch.
I am not yet convinced being able to build a random
unidentifiable binary package is a good thing, and "the number
of minutes/seconds monotonicity" would not work in multiple
branches case (i.e. still leaves the result unordered).