Subject: bug#13578: [IMPORTANT] A new versioning scheme for automake releases, and a new branching scheme for the Git repository

From: Miles Bader <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:50:59 +0900

Stefano Lattarini <[email-masked]> writes:
> But what if we want to have multiple betas for, say, Automake 1.14?  Today,
> we can just have 1.13b, 1.13d, 1.13f, ...; how can we do so with the scheme
> you are proposing?

There's always 1.14.0.1, ...

Or the widely used in FOSS 1.13.99...
[sometimes they start at "90", to leave room for updates, but I suppose
you could always just use .99.1, .99.2, ...]

-miles

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