The four-state table called '-dev but changed' half a ceremony and
refused — but that state IS the mandatory post-release bump PR
(bare -> X.Y.(Z+1)-dev after every release), which would have put a red
run on main once per release, forever. A tree that ends -dev is by
definition not a release: every such merge is work, and no-ops green
with a NOTICE. The red verdicts now guard only bare endstates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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