Comment 4 for bug 1842133

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Keith Thompson (kst) wrote :

I found the upstream fix for this issue.

git://git.sv.gnu.org/findutils :

commit 1cc207f6ebddd3609c995f17756f995cf8847c32
Author: Bernhard Voelker <email address hidden>
Date: 2017-10-30 21:54:19 +0100

    maint: make inter-release --version output more useful

    Now, each snapshot has a version "number" like 4.6-131-219-gda920ee,
    which indicates that it is built using the 131st change set
    (in _some_ repository) following the "v4.6" tag, and that da920ee
    is a prefix of the commit SHA1.

Prior to this commit, "find --version" reported "4.7.0-git".
As of that commit, it reports "4.6.0.157-1cc2"
The very latest as of today reports "4.7.0.12-6975a".

*If* this were to be addressed for Ubuntu 18.04, it could be done
by backporting this patch from upstream. I express no opinion on
whether that would be worth doing.