>> > Also, if we don't want to use those releases, we should check if the
>> > other packages also use the odd (version minor-version) numbers as a
>> > symbol for beta/rc releases.  
>> 
>> This is checked for GNU packages already, and I assume there’s no notion
>> of “unstable” releases on repos such as PyPI and CRAN?
>
> Could this also be a problem for GNU packages? If we didn't update to the
> latest release before they put out a new development version?

There could be exception, but in general, GNU packages put development
releases on alpha.gnu.org, so we shouldn’t have this problem.

Thanks!

Ludo’.