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On 2016-03-25 08:28:16 +1300 (+1300), Robert Collins wrote:
> However, Doug and I just uncovered a concern on IRC: having PyPI be
> ahead of master for more than very short periods seems like a poor
> idea.
> 
> When we tag a final release on a branch, without master being higher
> than that final release, folk running things installed from master,
> will now be 'upgradable' to whats on PyPI, even though thats older
> from a human perspective.
> 
> So, I think we do need some aggressive means to bump master up past
> the versions reserved for a stable branch, at the stable branches
> creation.

I could be misunderstanding, but isn't this why we have a release
pipeline job which merges the release tag into master? So that ~as
soon as there is a new release, post-versioning in the master branch
is parsed by PBR as being at or later than the most recent release?
-- 
Jeremy Stanley