Ringo, please calm down (#716)

* Try fix on version update script

* Auto update version from '0.36.0-dev47' to '0.36.0-dev48'

* trigger ci

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Co-authored-by: ringo-but-quantum <github-ringo-but-quantum@xanadu.ai>
Co-authored-by: Ali Asadi <10773383+maliasadi@users.noreply.github.com>

.github/workflows/dev_version_script.py

@@ -94,7 +94,14 @@ def update_prerelease_version(repo_root_path: Path, version: Version):
     # Only attempt to bump the version if the pull_request is:
     #  - A prerelease, has `X.Y.Z-prerelease` in _version.py
     #  - The prerelease startswith `dev`. We do not want to auto bump for non-dev prerelease.
-    if pr_version.prerelease and pr_version.prerelease.startswith(DEV_PRERELEASE_TAG_PREFIX):
+    # However,
+    #  If a PR is of a higher version AND the prerelease tag is reset, then do nothing
+    #  This captures the case during release where we might bump the release version
+    #  within a PR and reset tag back to dev0
+    if pr_version > master_version and pr_version.prerelease and pr_version.prerelease == DEV_PRERELEASE_TAG_START:
+        print("This Pull Request is upgrading the package version to next release ... skipping bumping!")
+        print("If this is happening in error, please report it to the PennyLane team!")
+    elif pr_version.prerelease and pr_version.prerelease.startswith(DEV_PRERELEASE_TAG_PREFIX):
         # If master branch does not have a prerelease (for any reason) OR does not have an ending number
         # Then default to the starting tag
         if not master_version.prerelease or master_version.prerelease == DEV_PRERELEASE_TAG_PREFIX:

pennylane_lightning/core/_version.py

@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@
    Version number (major.minor.patch[-label])
 """
 
-__version__ = "0.36.0-dev47"
+__version__ = "0.36.0-dev48"