GDB version numbering

[Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>]

This is just a suggestion for a scheme for numbering GDB releases.  Joel
has suggested (I think) that the version after next is called 7.0.  Major
number changes, naturally, are generally reserved for major changes. However,
as GDB usually releases fairly regularly, at about six monthly intervals,
the scale of the changes tend to be pretty constant.  So how about making
the _next_ release 7.0 (or 7.1) and subsequent releases as:

2008    8.0    8.1
2009    9.0    9.1
2010   10.0   10.1
etc?

Ubuntu do something like this.  It would mean that infrequent users would start
to realise how old their versions were and, hopefully, result in fewer out of
date bug reports.

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