From ec96a271c97896e74b50129faae5129926b21d12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexandre Oliva <lxoliva@fsfla.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 00:58:43 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] precheck version numbers

---
 mkgitrel | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mkgitrel b/mkgitrel
index c6ff9ec6b44..0ce544b932a 100755
--- a/mkgitrel
+++ b/mkgitrel
@@ -1,5 +1,22 @@
 #! /bin/bash
 
+success=:
+for rel
+do
+  case $rel in
+  v*)
+    echo $rel starts with v, that is unexpected >&2
+    success=false
+    ;;
+  *.*-gnu)
+    ;;
+  *)
+    echo $rel does not end with -gnu, that is unexpected >&2
+    success=false
+    ;;
+  esac
+done && $success &&
+
 $0.cln "$@" &&
 
 echo all revs cleaned up, awaiting manual check results... &&
-- 
2.31.1