[Feature Request] Version in tag

[jean-christophe-manciot]

First off, thanks for offering this "multiple-versions" feature to reprepro.
Right now, the tag does not reflect the version available in debian/changelog:

# git tag --list
5.1.1-multiple-versions-2017-02-10
5.1.1-multiple-versions-2017-02-27
5.1.1-multiple-versions-2017-03-27
5.1.1-multiple-versions-2017-03-28
5.1.1-multiple-versions-2017-03-29
5.1.1-multiple-versions-2017-04-12

Changing the tag format to reflect debian/changelog version would help us automate package building, for instance with a format like v5.1.1-2.1.
The branch name is explicit.

[jean-christophe-manciot]

Also, for some strange reason, the current tags are not seen by some git commands:

git-reprepro# git describe --abbrev=0 --tags
fatal: No tags can describe '450b5a626b2d044d688a663c5de4db98650a235d'.
Try --always, or create some tags.
git-reprepro# git describe --tags
fatal: No tags can describe '450b5a626b2d044d688a663c5de4db98650a235d'.
Try --always, or create some tags.

[bdrung]

Currently I just touched the debian/changelog once to increment the version once with a NMU version (e.g. 5.1.1-2.1), but then didn't updated it. So all 5.1.1-multiple-versions-* tags have the same Debian version 5.1.1-2.1.

Do you want me to update the Debian version from 5.1.1-2.1 to 5.1.1+multi+version+20170412-0.1?

[jean-christophe-manciot]

No, my proposal is the other way around which is the current best practice on most debian git repositories:

• tag your 5.1.1-multiple-versions branch with a new version whenever you feel the code is stable enough; 5.1.1-2.2 would be reasonable for the first tag with this new format. It is done with something like this on your local system:

git tag -a 5.1.1-2.2 -m "Release version 5.1.1-2.2"
git push --porcelain --progress --tags origin "refs/heads/5.1.1-multiple-versions:refs/heads/5.1.1-multiple-versions"

• sync your debian/changelog with that tag by prepending the file with a new header for each new tag.

[bdrung]

To be precise, the changes affect the upstream code and are new "upstream" releases instead of just small Debian revision changes. So 5.1.1+mv2-0.1 would be more precise.

[SwooshyCueb]

Is this the new upstream location?

[bdrung]

No, https://salsa.debian.org/brlink/reprepro is the upstream location.