Drop 'unknown' suffix in runtime version

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Sonntag, 18. Mai 2025 10:57:33 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit Yi Zhao via 
Gnupg-devel wrote:
> When I build gunpg in Yocto, a "-unknown" suffix appears in the gpg
> runtime version:
> 
> $ gpg --version
> gpg (GnuPG) 2.5.5-unknown
> 
> This is because the configure will be re-generated by autoreconf in
> Yocto. The autogen.sh will add "-unknown" suffix to PACKAGE_VERSION.
> Now I have a simple patch to remove this suffix in autogen.sh.
> I wonder if there is a more appropriate way to resolve this? Thanks.

Some Linux distributions have similar patches to remove this suffix because for 
some reason or other they also regenerate the configure script. Since the Linux 
distributions also apply other patches it's actually not nice that they remove 
the suffix because they clearly don't ship the version that their packages 
announce. If they don't like the "-unknown" suffix then they should append a 
suffix like "-DISTRONAME" so that everybody knows that they don't use the 
released version as-is.

If you use the released version without any other patches then using a patch 
that just removes the "-suffix" is okay.

Regards,
Ingo
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