Subject: bug#7333: [PATCH] {maint} Fix a bug in variable concatanation with `+='.

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:40:38 -0500

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> Can that be fixed in debbugs?  I would love to have both 'git describe'
> output as well as commit SHA1 strings be acceptable as version strings.
> git describe output starts with v but then contrains fairly much
> arbitrary characters as put in the last signed git tag.  SHA1's are
> easier, and if the other is a problem then those would still be better
> than no version information, I guess.

Sure. Here is the current regexp:

m/^close\s+\#?(-?\d+)(?:\s+(\d.*))?$/i

$1 = bug number
$2 = version number

What would you like it to be?