[gentoo-user] Question on ebuild naming/numbering

[Jack Ostroff <ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net>]

There's been an update to the gkrellm mailing list about progress on the 
gtk3 conversion.  It seems much of the work is being done in a specific 
git branch.  If I want to create an ebuild to track that branch instead 
of master, what would be an appropriate numbering of that ebuild?  Just 
using a different name with 9999 would work - but then those two names 
would have to block each other, since I don't think they could 
co-exist.  Are there any examples I can look at?  Just adding something 
after the 9999 doesn't seem right, nor does something like 9998.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

Thanks.