Subject: Re: bug#4879: Crash in xmenu_show

From: Kevin Rodgers <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:11:46 -0700

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked]
>> Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:10:27 +0200
...
>> the date
>> it inserts in the version string is the date of compilation that
>> provides no help to reproduce the bug.  Is it possible to replace it
>> with the date of the last CVS checkout/update that says exactly what
>> state of the code repository contains the bug?
> 
> Everything's possible -- this is software.  You could write code that
> looks in the ChangeLog files for the latest log entries in src/,
> lisp/, and leim/, for example.  Or the code could look at the time
> stamp of some CVS/Template file (in any directory) -- but this needs
> to be changed for those who use VCs other than CVS, and for everybody
> when we switch to bzr.
> 
> Personally, I never build without "cvs update", so the build time is
> almost exactly the checkout time.

3rd party distributions may not use the same procedure as you, and they seem
to generate a fair number of bug reports.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA