Use the \setshortversion macro to specify the abbreviated version number.
This partially addresses SourceForge bug #114318.
Fix the release number -- this is supposed to be the *Python* release,
not the documentation release! The later is given by the combination of
the Python release number and the date. Add a comment so I can keep it
straight.
diff --git a/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex b/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
index bfcf18c..84a2570 100644
--- a/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
+++ b/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
@@ -5,5 +5,6 @@
E-mail: \email{python-docs@python.org}
}
-\date{September 12, 2000} % XXX update before release!
-\release{2.0b1.1}
+\date{\today} % XXX update before release!
+\release{2.0b1} % software release, not documentation
+\setshortversion{2.0} % major.minor only for Python