Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 297: Relaxing the protover-based shutdown rules

Hi,

On 20/09/18 00:51, Ian Goldberg wrote:

If you make it use, say, the timestamp on the tip git commit of the source, then it's (a) automated, and (b) reproducible. But that's more of a build date than a release date, of course. (That's what otr uses.)

Please don't make your build system depend on git!

Distributions don't want to ship the entire project history with every package release.

stem had been doing this and as a result the test suite had never been run as part of the build process for the Debian package, which always starts from a tarball with no VCS information. (This is now fixed in stem).

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26984

Thanks, Iain.