From: Justin Forbes on
gitlab.com
https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/issues/39#note_547946553
It is an important distinction that the typical package has an upstream
source repository, and dist-git. We have essentially 2 different
upstream repositories and dist-git, so having the date generated the way
it does gives me some information about the kernel-ark repository, while
the git tag gives me some information about upstream, both are useful in
day to day at a glance.