[Swan-dev] use @IPSECBASEVERSION@ when going to 4.x dev cycle.

[Andrew Cagney]

On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 09:47, Paul Wouters <paul at nohats.ca> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 16 Oct 2020, Tuomo Soini wrote:
>
> >> There were thoughts about removing IPSECBASEVERSION alltogether, and
> >> setting it now to something like "4.1dev".
> >
> > Just 4.1 - the next version
>
> That would be misleading though, you would see 4.1-gXXXXXX, thinking
> it is post 4.1 ?

Yes.  Same applies to 4.1dev.  It minimally suggests there's a 4.1
branch and probably a 4.1 release.  Basic problem is that the tag is
trying to predict the future.

Perhaps the first thing to do is look at the release process itself.
Currently it drops a tag.  Should it instead cut a short lived branch?
 How do other projects deal with this?

(btw, kvm uses testing/web/gime-git-branch.sh and deals with hairy
edge cases because HEAD in the repo-under-test may may be detached)

> >> While still merging the git short commit hash into that to know the
> >> exact commit of the dev tree the build was on.
> >
> > When building from git we know we are in snapshot because there is no
> > tag for v4.1
>
> I see. But then when you build from the spec files, it somehow has to
> show that too, and we normally do that by using a rcX or drX pre-release
> marker. That is why I was thinking of using the "dev" marker.
>
> Paul
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