[Bug 26120] build: cleanups

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26120





--- Comment #7 from Will Thompson <will.thompson at collabora.co.uk>  2010-01-25 09:00:53 PST ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > I'm in favour of sticking the git revision into stuff built from Git snapshots.
> > Is this actually updated on commit, or only when re-running autogen?
> 
> Only when running autogen. This is exactly what they do in autoconf itself, and
> a bunch of GNOME packages.

Hmm. I wonder if more-specific but stale information is worse than
less-specific but accurate information.

> I use a different method in my own packages that keeps it always up to date but
> I don't think you want that.

Hmm, what's your method, out of interest?


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