Pixman version numbering

[Ryan Schmidt]

Hi, I'm the maintainer of Pixman in MacPorts and I'm trying to figure out how I should handle the 0.43.0 release. I see that the source archive is available for download from https://www.cairographics.org/releases/ however there is also a file LATEST-pixman-0.42.2 in that directory making me uncertain whether the latest stable release is 0.42.2 or 0.43.0. Also, Pixman previously followed the old GNOME version numbering scheme wherein the middle number of the version number indicates whether the release is stable (even) or a snapshot (odd). Has Pixman abandoned that versioning scheme now, as GNOME has? I didn't find any announcement to that effect on this list or on the Pixman web page.

The ChangeLog and NEWS files in the source archive which I would have expected to tell me about any change in version numbering policy, or any other significant changes in a new version, are sadly empty. In the absence of these resources I looked briefly at the commit log but didn't see anything specifically about a change in version numbering. I did notice that you dropped the autotools build system, which is a major change for anyone who had been using the autotools build system, and well worth mentioning in a NEWS file.
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