Re: tag for 2.17.96 is missing in git

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> Forget that: it seems that the tag already exists, it's just not
>> present on the master branch (because it's in the stable branch):
>> 050744bbb706525840a3014cd72b06fde945fa4d

OK.

> Yes, I have it here as well.

Hmm.  So why do we have

  commit 9918cd9f8d8f5461c6ad7e086fd93de59960eb95
  Author: Phil Holmes <address@hidden>
  Date:   Sun Nov 24 22:05:16 2013 +0000

      Release: bump VERSION.

in the `master' branch?  This looks incorrect to me, given that we
currently derive 2.17.9X tarballs from the `stable' branch, right?


    Werner