"version_rc1" preceding "version" without increasing the epoch?

[Mojca Miklavec]

Hi,

I'm wondering if there is some painless & acceptable way to upgrade
the port to rc1 (or beta or whatever else) when knowing in advance
that the next release will only drop the "rc1" part? Without
increasing the epoch?

Is it acceptable to simply set the version to "version", change
"distfiles" and "worksrcdir" manually to add "_rc1" and then revert
everything back and increase the revision when the true release comes
out?

Thank you,
    Mojca