Drop 'unknown' suffix in runtime version

[Yi Zhao]

On 5/19/25 23:06, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for your response. May I know why gnupg adds this suffix? As far 
as I know, it is not uncommon to re-run autoreconf on the tarball.

And I found that other gnupg-related packages such as libksba, 
libassuan, libgcrypt, pinentry, libgpg-error also add this suffix.


//Yi


>
> Regards,
> Ingo
>
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