Comment 3 for bug 700193

I created a branch LP700193. In that branch I modified the version string generated to get rid of the number of commits since the tag.

If we were to tag commit 9c5c7462b5e0b5b2d76bddfc383b820b57da45a0 as 'v4.0.0' then this would produce a version string: v4.0.0-ge6711103. I think this is a good solution.

I'm not sure how the script is supposed to work, but it looks like it also needs a signed tag. The script also uses "tr" which may not be available on all platforms (I read that somewhere, but I don't remember where).