Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> writes:

> On 09/23/21 17:17:48 -0400, No Wayman wrote:

> It looks like you've unintentionally added a ')' to the end of 
> the
> GITVERSION line.

Apologies. Must've been a stray.

> Another approach would be to update org.el's version to contain
> something that still signals "-dev" but won't trigger the 
> "Invalid
> version syntax" (which, based on grepping the Emacs repo, is 
> signaled by
> version-to-list).  But given that in the current setup a clone 
> with tags
> wouldn't use the header version, stripping -dev for consistency 
> sounds
> like the way to go.

I agree we should keep it simple and consistent.

Out of curiosity I ran this against the repo to see if the 
"Version" metadata had always followed its current convention:

git grep "Version:" $(git rev-list --all) -- lisp/org.el

Looks like the "-dev" suffix goes back to "9.4-dev" and before 
that we have "8.4-git" and "6.08-pre01".
I'm not sure what Org's convention is here, but the patsubst could 
be adjusted to be more flexible if necessary.

I tried to be more concrete with the commit message.
See attached.