Packaging 4.9: kdelibs?

[Albert Astals Cid]

Soooo, now that I've bitten the bait and decided to package 4.9 beta 1 myself 
I have a question :D

kdelibs is special since we don't have a master branch to package, i need to 
package from the 4.8 branch, that's fine *but* the issue is that i have to 
increase the version number and thus I can't tag 4.8.80 since I can't commit 
the version number increase to 4.8 branch.

Ben suggests we create the 4.9 branch already. That'd go along with Martin's 
suggestion to create the 4.9 branch too.

Any comments?

Albert