If you package Android platform-tools (adb, fastboot, etc.) for a Linux distribution, please switch to using the official version numbering and stable releases instead of building snapshots from stable releases of the Android Open Source Project and overwriting the versioning.
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I talked to about this yesterday since it wasn't clear how to get the right revisions and there's now a platform-tools-29.0.1 tag:
android.googlesource.com/platform/syste
This is the latest stable release and should be used for the standalone tools. It's not tied to Android OS releases.
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The versioning scheme is based on the API level. Android Q is API 29 and the current stable releases of the tools support it, so their base version is 29. It's confusing for users to have distributions overwriting "28.0.0 rc1" with "9.0.0_r45" as it's not how this is versioned.
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For more details, see the issue I filed for Arch Linux:
bugs.archlinux.org/task/63200
The version is $PLATFORM_TOOLS_VERSION-$BUILD_NUMBER, where $BUILD_NUMBER should uniquely identify the downstream package such as 29.0.1-arch-8daa39c3 (for a Git revision) or 29.0.1-arch-1:29.0.1-1.
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