Posted by maqifrnswa on Jul 04, 2011; 1:16am
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/How-to-read-librecad-version-numbers-in-ubuntu-tp4548453p4548553.html

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 8:26 PM, R. van Twisk [via LibreCAD]
<[hidden email]> wrote:
> Scott,
> on that subject, I noticed that in ubuntu the SCM tag is empty,
> this should (if I did my job right) show the GIT tag
> in the form of: SCM Revision: 1.0.0rc1-119-ga41a27e
> Can that get included in the ubuntu PPA?
> Ries

Does that work if someone grabs the release tarballs instead of github
clone? The packages in the official Debian and Ubuntu repositories
don't do a github clone but instead download the .tar.gz from github.

Actually, the automatic builds don't even do that - they grab a bzr
branch which imports the github branch. It's silly, but the only way
to automatically do it with PPAs (they don't do gits.)

~Scott