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Deprecated the `cc: <mesa-stable>` in favor of `stable: X.Y [X.Y]`

Dylan Baker requested to merge dbaker/mesa:submit/stable-tag into main

This adds new detection capabilities to our maintainer scripts, such that they can now detect and use a Stable: X.Y tag in a git commit body. This means that a developer can replace:

Fix some issue

Cc: 21.2 <mesa-stable@lists.freedesktop.org>

with

Fix xome issue

Stable: 21.2

This has a few advantages. For developers:

  • It's easier to remember
  • It's less typing

For maintainers:

  • It's more accurate (the version numbers are required

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