defining FFMPEG_VERSION

[Reinhard Tartler]

Andres Mejia <mcitadel at gmail.com> writes:

>> > Instead, do away with the need for .svnrevision and in the
>> > configure-stamp-% target from debian/rules do, 'echo $(SVN_REVISION) >
>> > debian-$*/snapshot_version'.
>>
>> Again, what problem does this solve again?
>
> I'm trying to solve problem where I couldn't more easily track ffmpeg's git repo 
> and build packages from their master branch.

I assume that you are aware that swscale needs special handling because
git doesn't support svn:externals? I assume yes, and besides, the
problem you describe applies to svn as well.

> So with the above patch you provide, we should do something like,
>
> [ -r .svnrevision ] && echo "SVN-r$(cat .svnrevision)" > 
> debian-$*/snapshot_version.

Aah, right, that sounds perfectly reasonable. Feel free to commit that
change then!

PS: the '$' probably needs to be escaped with '$$' in make. my patch is
totally untested and only to show the general idea.

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