On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Till Maas <opensource@till.name> wrote:

On Mo, Nov 30, 2015 at 11:28:57 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:

> Is there any reason not to use the date as the version? It's in YYYYMMDD
> format so there shouldn't be a upgrade path issue but this isn't explicitly
> covered in the packaging guidelines that I can find.

If you make it as a post release from the latest regular release, you
can easily adjust if they go back to normal releases without requiring
an epoch.

I agree that would work, but staying canonical with upstream, if they ask, "What version are you using?", 0.4.1 is not the correct answer. I think it would be different if I was doing actual checkouts but they provide archives which include the date.

Thanks,

Richard