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Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Yes, the same mistake was made then (but was not made for Emacs-20.1).
> It's no excuse to repeat it.
>   

If it was deliberate, then it was not a mistake. And history shows that 
Emacs has always had version numbers, not version strings.