From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] deb-pkg: allow to specify a custom revision for .deb packages
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 00:33:02 +0200
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On Wednesday 01 April 2009, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Apr 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> > Allow to specify a custom revision for the generated .deb by
> > exporting the environment variable KDEB_PKGVERSION.
>
> nack
> looks like double work circumventling .localversion

No. .localversion gets added to the _kernel_ version in the package name.
This is to overrule the standard _package_ version.

I use it for example to automatically create a series of versioned 
packages during bisection based on .git/BISECT_LOG:
linux-2.6.29_1_amd64.deb
linux-2.6.29_2_amd64.deb
linux-2.6.29_3_amd64.deb
linux-2.6.29_4_amd64.deb
...

For "normal" packages I use package versions based on 'git describe'.
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