RFC: Changing GDB's version numbering scheme

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:49:34 +0100
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> 
> The proposal, to avoid this issue, is to change the version numbering
> scheme to increment the major version for each release branch.

With the current release schedule, you will have the major version
increase very rapidly, for no good reason, because, for example, the
difference between GDB 8.1 and 8.2, feature-wise, is very small, so is
not really appropriate (IMO) for a new major version.

Do we care about this downside?