Posted by maqifrnswa on Jul 04, 2011; 1:37pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/How-to-read-librecad-version-numbers-in-ubuntu-tp4548453p4550036.html

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 11:09 PM, R. van Twisk [via LibreCAD]
<[hidden email]> wrote:
> That's a pitty, because on the #CAM channel I sometimes answer questions
> around LibreCAD, and currently I don't have good insight in what version
> they really use, my knowledge of Ubuntu is unfortunately low enough
> for myself to not even know :)
> Is there something we can do to change this? Could the build system use the
> filename?
> As I noticed that github sends the describe as the filename...
> I don't know what bzr is

I added more information to the ubuntu package version
1.0.0~rc1+yeslib201107031942.173-0ubuntu0~daily3~oneiric1

where the .173 corresponds to the 173 commit at:
https://code.launchpad.net/~librecad-dev/librecad-dev/librecad

Users can find what version they have by this command: "dpkg -s
librecad | grep Version"


The filename gets scrubbed in the archives, and the PPAs can only
autobuild bazaar (bzr) branches, which also lose the git commit hash.
But you can lookup which commit it corresponds to here:
https://code.launchpad.net/~librecad-dev/librecad-dev/librecad

Would that work? Git commit id info has been requested for PPA builds:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr-builder/+bug/620132
but it appears that they are only planning support for bzr branches
(that's why I have to import the git tree into bzr to get it to work)

Cheers,
Scott