[RFA] bad VER in src-release causes snapshot failure

[Joel Brobecker]

> Joel> I also meant to mention that my patch avoids duplicating again
> Joel> the code used to compute the GDB version... It's already spread
> Joel> everywhere, so not a big deal, but relatively easy to avoid by
> Joel> re-using your create-version.sh script. A bit of a hack, though.
> 
> Thanks Joel.  That seems like a decent rationale to me.
> I'm ok with your patch.

OK, thanks Tom. Patch now applied. Hopefully we'll have our nightly
snapshots again tonight.

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Joel