[PATCH RFC] Drop release date from kexec-tools version output

[Dave Young]

On 08/25/15 at 04:12pm, Pratyush Anand wrote:
> On 25/08/2015:04:47:59 PM, Dave Young wrote:
> > On 08/24/15 at 03:59pm, Pratyush Anand wrote:
> > > 
> > > May be we can take same approach what kernel build takes. Kernel build does not
> > > add build/release string. It just add date and time like "Mon Aug 10 23:38:23 UTC 2015".
> > > 
> > > $ uname -a
> > > Linux dhcppc13 4.1.5-200.fc22.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 10 23:38:23 UTC 2015 x86_64
> > > x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> > > 
> > 
> > Do you means drop "released" string only and keep the date? I'm also fine with
> > it, at lease less confusion to me.
> 
> Yes, exactly.
> 

Pratyush, rethink about it, it is still confused. Considering below case:

git clone kexec-tools;
bootstrap and build, the version and date is the current git version and current date
after some time, git pull, upstream bumps to new version
run make again, build/sbin/kexec --version will still show the old date along with new version

I know one can say we should make distclean and run bootstrap again, but it really worth?

Am I the only person with such feel?

Thanks
dave