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>> Splitting all of this into "master" and "stable" branches only means that the people pulling the "stable" branch 
>> might get stale/broken/no 9999 ebuilds.  It just isn't supposed to work like that.
>> 
>> If you'd like a sample of how this kind of thing looks in practice, here's poppler in the official Gentoo ebuild 
>> repository, with three release ebuilds and one live ebuild:
>> 
>> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/app-text/poppler
>> 
> 
> Thank you, now I understand better. This means there is no need to create a branch. It also means that 
> tde-packaging-gentoo will not be part of the 'tde' tree on r14.0.x branch.
> 
> Is there also a convention for preliminary packages? For example, as on Debian "~preXX", or on FreeBSD "+pXX"?
> 

Personally I think it is still better to have a master and r14.0.x branch. For all maintenance releases (like R14.0.x)
the various ebuild scripts can leave within the same branch, but at least when we change into a new minor release
there is a clear separation between branches. Just my 2 cents.
Cheers
  Michele
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