Re: GOP2-2b - Stable 2.16.x releases (dictator) (probable decision)

[John Mandereau]

Il giorno mer, 01/08/2012 alle 19.26 +0200, David Kastrup ha scritto:
> Build numbers are not all that relevant for _us_ as far as I can tell.
> They distinguish different versions compiled from the _same_ canonical
> source (so they don't belong into our VERSION file at any rate).
> Changes may be updates of the dependencies, of the compiling platform,
> of the downstream patches.
> 
> In our case, they would become relevant only when GUB gets updated and
> we require a rerelease from otherwise unchanged sources because of that.

We have some history of release tags used in place of bumping patch
level in version number:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/tags/release/2.12.3-2

That said, such goofs like that one I was involved in regarding
documentation translations is less likely to happen with staging
mechanism, a different implementation of "make dist" (I'm testing a
patch, see dev/jmandereau if you're impatient), and you controlling the
commits that will go in stable/2.16.

John