Lost VERSION file in source

[leaeasy]

When build package with the release source, we cannot get the package version.
I wonder if the VERSION file should be shipped in then archive source.

Makefile:
6 VERSION := $(shell $(GIT2LOG) --version VERSION ; cat VERSION)
7 BRANCH := $(shell git branch | perl -ne 'print $$_ if s/^\s//')
8 PREFIX := gfxboot-$(VERSION)

[wfeldt]

But 'make archive' does include the VERSION file in the created archive.

[tele1]

But something want this file, so I also
interested how it works in OpenSuse.

I tried do something like exist in src.rpm from OpenSuse on UPLOS Linux ( PCLinuxOS based )
but I download from https://github.com/openSUSE/gfxboot/releases
and unpack

[tele@localhost gfxboot-4.5.18]$ mkdir build
[tele@localhost gfxboot-4.5.18]$ pwd
/home/tele/Downloads/NEW/gfxboot-4.5.18
[tele@localhost gfxboot-4.5.18]$ make DESTDIR=/home/tele/Downloads/NEW/gfxboot-4.5.18/build installsrc
no git repo
cat: VERSION: No such file or directory
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
install -d -m 755 /home/tele/Downloads/NEW/gfxboot-4.5.18/build/usr/share/gfxboot/themes
cp -a themes/example* /home/tele/Downloads/NEW/gfxboot-4.5.18/build/usr/share/gfxboot/themes
cp -a bin test /home/tele/Downloads/NEW/gfxboot-4.5.18/build/usr/share/gfxboot
[tele@localhost gfxboot-4.5.18]$ make X11LIBS=/usr/X11R6/lib
no git repo
cat: VERSION: No such file or directory
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
./git2log --update --changelog changelog
no git repo
Makefile:18: recipe for target 'changelog' failed
make: *** [changelog] Error 2

I want write something else
From README.md

You can find more information about this workflow in the linuxrc-devtools
documentation.

we going to this website and ...

tobs

Commit current git state to build service.

There must be a make target archive that has created:

a VERSION file
a changelog file
a source archive package/<name>-<version>.tar.xz
optionally other source files (that will be mentioned in *.spec) below package/

Ideally, repeated make runs should produce exactly the same archive file as long as the git repo stays unchanged.

So, If you can, write how you doing it.