preparing a icedtea-1.3 release?

[Matthias Klose]

Andrew John Hughes schrieb:
> On 00:08 Mon 29 Sep     , Mark Wielaard wrote:
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 22:25 +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>>> I would like to get the better version reporting in that you and andrew
>>>> suggested. Andrew already has something in icedtea[7].
>>>>
>>> With 7 it currently gives:
>>>
>>> java version "1.7.0_0"
>>> IcedTea 1.8-pre-r1226 Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_0-b36)
>>> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.7.0_0-b36, mixed mode)
>>>
>>> Releases built from a tarball would simplify to just IcedTea 1.8 (for example).
>>> The revision is automatically picked up if the source directory is a Mercurial
>>> repository, and the other part is taken from configure.
>>>
>>> The other related patch adds support for a custom version tag giving:
>>>
>>> $ java -version
>>> java version "1.6.0-gentoo"
>>> IcedTea6 1.2 Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-gentoo-b09)
>>> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.6.0-b09, mixed mode)
>>>
>>> (I applied the patch to the Gentoo ebuilds for IcedTea6)
>>>
>>> IcedTea6, unlike IcedTea7, seems to have dropped using IcedTea at all
>>> in favour of OpenJDK, which I feel is confusing, given we are patching
>>> the resulting build so much.
>> Yes, we need the extra version/name to avoid confusion and to get better
>> bug reports. There has been some confusion in the past because a) we
>> reused the bxx number for different releases and b) a distro might have
>> backported a patch already.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mark
>>
> 
> Yes, this is exactly what I considered when writing the patches.  I
> posted the output here so people could discuss the results and any
> problems before we commit this to the IcedTea6 tree as well.
> 
> Including the Mercurial revision gives us a version of IcedTea down to
> the commit.  I would suggest that distros and the like adding changes beyond
> what's in the repository or a particular released version add an additional
> tag (e.g. 'gentoo' above) so we at least know we are not working with a
> vanilla IcedTea install.

usually the vcs repository is not included in the source upload. relying on
anything but a checkout would be bad.

Note that gcc does explicitely check in such information (DATE) or does update
this information (LAST_UPDATED, via contrib/gcc_update).

> Both concepts have been common practice with GCC for some time AFAIK.
> 
> $ gcc --version
> gcc (Gentoo 4.3.9999 p1.1) 4.3.3 20080924 (prerelease)
> 
> $ /home/andrew/build/gcj/bin/gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 4.4.0 20080913 (experimental) [gcj/classpath-098-merge-branch revision 140651]

How to include this? "Gentoo 4.3.9999 p1.1" is the package version as uploaded.
My question was how to include this package version string such it is displayed
in the version information and in the hs_log* files (including any epoch version
in the packaging).

  Matthias