From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <chastain@cygnus.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: CVS versions of gdb have same number as stable version.
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 08:07:00 -0000
Message-id: <200102161607.IAA23711@bosch.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00213.html

Okay, I'm looking at a PR (gdb/7), and the user has pasted in their
gdb startup message:

  GNU gdb 5.0
  Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
  welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
  Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
  There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
  This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...

Quick, which version of gdb is this?

It might be gdb 5.0.  Or it might be any CVS version of gdb made between
the release of gdb 5.0 and 2001-01-24 (when the copyright date changed
to 2001).

This bothers me.  I've filed a PR about it.

Can we please use something other than "5.0" for CVS gdb, such as
"5.1-experimental-$(DATE)", or even just "5.1-experimental"?

Michael