Re: Releasing groff 1.22.5?

[Bertrand Garrigues]

Hi Werner,

On Sun, Oct 11 2020 at 04:59:43 AM, Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Just a question on the version though: We are talking about 1.23 and
>> not 1.23.0, and I see that we also had a 1.22 version (not a
>> 1.22.0), is there a particular reason to omit the patch number if it
>> is equal to 0?
>
> It looked nicer then for me, and I think I saw that for other GNU
> packages, too – the zero is essentually redundant.  No other special
> reason.

1.23 looks prettier to me too; so I will first make a 1.23.rc1 tag.  I
just need to check that the non-numerical 'rc' won't harm, for example
if a something attempts to check the patch number.

Regards,
Bertrand