Forget that: it seems that the tag already exists, it's just not
present on the master branch (because it's in the stable branch):
050744bbb706525840a3014cd72b06fde945fa4d
OK.
Yes, I have it here as well.
Hmm. So why do we have
commit 9918cd9f8d8f5461c6ad7e086fd93de59960eb95
Author: Phil Holmes <address@hidden>
Date: Sun Nov 24 22:05:16 2013 +0000
Release: bump VERSION.
in the `master' branch? This looks incorrect to me, given that we
currently derive 2.17.9X tarballs from the `stable' branch, right?
Werner