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On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:

> On 03/18/2014 04:25 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>
>> Robert Collins wrote:
>>
>>> If you set 'version' in setup.cfg, pbr's behaviour will not change at
>>> all.
>>>
>>> If you do not set 'version' in setup.cfg then:
>>>   - for tagged commits, pbr's behaviour will not change at all.
>>>   - for untagged commits, pbr will change from
>>> '$last_tag_version.$commit_count.g$sha' to
>>> '$next_highest_pre_release.dev$commit_count.g$sha'
>>>
>>
>> That sounds sane to me. IIUC it shouldn't impact the release team. The
>> version number ends up being quite ugly, but in that precise case
>> prettiness is not a primary goal.
>>
>> It may impact packagers in some corner cases so I'd engage with them to
>> check (#openstack-packaging ?) *and*, like Doug recommends, wait for
>> after icehouse release to make the change.
>>
>>
> We've also discussed adding a utility to transform the newer uglier but
> more pep440 correct generated version string into debian format for folks -
> since it is possible to do it purely mechanically, but grokking it totally
> might not be something someone wants to do.


I've created a blueprint to do this, but as I don't know the details of
the version numbers it doesn't have much detail. I would appreciate it if
anyone who does understand those differences would add some notes to 
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/oslo/+spec/pbr-packager-version-utility

Doug


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