Bugzilla Bug 218150

Current gentoo mplayer (and many previous versions) fails to list its base
version number in response to a "-version" switch.

Mplayer compiled from the untouched mplayer source (as of April 10 2008) lists
its version as "MPlayer dev-SVN-r26361-4.2.23 (C) ...".

Mplayer 1.0_rc2_p26454-r2 (compiled from today's gentoo ebuild) lists its
version as "Mplayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.2.3 (C) ...".

It should AT LEAST list is base version as 26454 (one would presume).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compile mplayer from gentoo ebuild
2. Execute "mplayer -version"


Actual Results:  
Version is listed as "UNKNOWN" (and has been for many mplayer releases).

Expected Results:  
Version number should

One should get some clue as to the mplayer source from which the binary was
derived without having to go back and look at the ebuild records (if one even
has them).

Not a bug, since we are stripping SVN info from the source snapshot.  If you
downloaded the nightly snapshot from their site, you'd get the same thing.

I did update the non-Gentoo source directly from the svn.mplayerhq.hu site via
an "svn update" command.  The final line of the update listing, says:
  "Updated to revision 26456.

The compiled mplayer that results from this source for
  mplayer -version
yields:
  MPlayer dev-SVN-r26456-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team

I'm not sure if by "nightly snapshot" you refer to some binary but I would
argue that using an mplayer binary given the complexity and machine specificity
of compiling it is a very iffy path to follow.  As pointed out above, compiling
it from source *does* include the revision number.

I would argue that source version/revision information should never be
stripped.  If anything the version information should be modified to indicate
that it is patched, e.g.
  MPlayer dev-SVN-r26456-4.2.3-patched

The use of the term "UNKNOWN" is inaccurate because the source revision number
is presumably "KNOWN" (it is in the Gentoo package version).

This is not a trivial point, as I'm trying to debug Gentoo Bug #218156 and I've
got 8 binary versions of mplayer on my system.  And while I know the build
dates I cannot tell from those binaries built via Gentoo ebuilds what the
source was for the binary.  This is important, because the old binaries work
and the new binaries do not and it would nice to do diff listings on the
working source and the failing source.

It wouldn't work because version.sh needed to be in an actual svn repo to work
properly.

Anyway, should be fixed now in mplayer-1.0_rc2_p26753