[asterisk-dev] Confused with release numbers, how to manage incremental patching ?

[Pavel Troller]

Hi!
  I'm tracking the 1.6.1 releases by incrementally patching my source tree with
newly occuring patches. Now I'm at 1.6.1.7-rc2 level.
  Today, a patch for 1.6.1.8 has been announced, but it is against 1.6.1.6, so
I cannot apply it cleanly.
  My question is: What will be the next base of the "regular" patch (i.e.
1.6.1.9-rc1, as announced) ? Will it be 1.6.1.8, or 1.6.1.7-rc2 ? If the later
is true, I can safely skip the .8 patch, because I'm not caring about the
problem (not using ACLs in SIP). But if the first is true, what I'm supposed
to do ? Unpatch to the pure .6, then patch to .8 and then patch with .9-rc1 ?
Will it contain all the changes contained in .7-rc1 and .7-rc2 ? I'm really
confused by this strange numbering... 
  With regards, Pavel Troller