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=C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> I think nobody's doing such a "chained" build when building the docs fo=
r
> a "real" release, and having mixed versions might be confusing, but for
> the "local build" case from a development checkout it's arguably more
> useful.

Well, when I prepare a cascade of maintenance releases for CVE, what
do you think is done?  Yes, I do have "make distclean" in the loop
that iterates over the maint-$version branches, just to be extra
careful, but I shouldn't have to.