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It took me a long time to understand why Maven uses version strings like 4.2.1-SNAPSHOT but this is exactly why it's useful.

(The standard practice is to strip the "-SNAPSHOT" off for the release commit, then stick it back on for the next commit, but with a bumped minor version. Both commits are then pushed at once, so stuff built locally always is marked as a SNAPSHOT.)



The problem here is that Debian's OpenJDK maintainer removed the "work in progress" indicator string manually. No approach protects against this.




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