id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
38	debian packages for CVS based projects and (HEAD) versions	Bryan Gartner	Bruno Cornec	"Currently, when a revision is not specified for a CVS based project, PB attempts to use cvs-1 as a versioning string.  This is a problem for debian packaging guidelines and the typical tools used resulting is this type of error:

dh_builddeb -v
	dpkg-deb --build debian/linuxcoe-sd-docs ..
dpkg-deb - error: (upstream) version (`cvs') doesn't contain any digits
dpkg-deb: 1 errors in control file
dh_builddeb: command returned error code 512
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status 
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I'd suggest we modify this approach to use one similar to the svn behaviour of using a date stamp format (YYYYMMDD), and this also matches what Debian Policy states:

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s3.2.1"	defect	closed	major	0.9.5	pb	0.9.4	fixed