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Subject: Improving SRCPV? (was: Re: [PATCH 3/7] gptfdisk: update to 1.0.0)
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On 08/10/2015 02:29 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:

>> its always preferable to have PV contain SRCPV for recipes using SCM based fetch mechanism. Don’t drop it
>
> There has been discussion about this in other threads and the conclusion
> reached is that where there is a specific version being selected, having
> PV of that specific version is a good thing. With "1.0.0+gitXXX" its
> unclear if its really 1.0.0 or not.

Yes. When SCM is used to fetch a pristine tagged release, adding SRCPV 
just adds unnecessary clutter. My understanding is that SRCPV is only 
there to enforce package version going forwards when changing one git 
snapshot for a later git snapshot, when both are based on the same 
tagged release.

Alex