[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/tvheadend: bump version to v4.1-2345 and fix version reporting

[Damjan Marion]

> On 28 Nov 2016, at 22:43, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 22:24:20 +0100, Damjan Marion wrote:
> 
>>> Because we're using a full hash in every other package fetched from Git
>>> in Buildroot, and we like consistency :)  
>> 
>> Unfortunately that was only meaningful way (I’m aware of) to provide some
>> human-readable version information out from their repo.
> 
> Well, the full hash is by far the most precise and exact information.
> Anyone having the Git repository can do "git checkout <hash>" and get
> straight to the exact same commit.
> 
>> I don't see how is this improvement compared to “0.0.0~unknown”. I really doubt
>> that it is worth time to submit that as a patch….
> 
> Well, 0.0.0~unknown doesn't say anything about the version. The full
> hash says it all.

Yeah, assuming that end user understands that this string of “random” characters 
is really a version.

> 
>> What about something like:
>> 
>> TVHEADEND_VERSION = 50a370707aedf5c127e92bb517c378aa8ac04657
>> TVHEADEND_PRETTY_VERSION = v4.1-2345-g50a3707  
> 
> Which have to be maintained separately :/

ok, anyway, let’s forget about this thread…. I can maintain it in my external tree.

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