From 5feece856817e9c0d1f2f4a84edc5c17c0dd11ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas A Caswell <tcaswell@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:11:09 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #20903: Use release-branch version scheme

---
 lib/matplotlib/__init__.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py b/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py
index ac84e82c30f6..231a3d7d4c3f 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ def _get_version():
         import setuptools_scm
         return setuptools_scm.get_version(
             root=root,
-            version_scheme="post-release",
+            version_scheme="release-branch-semver",
             local_scheme="node-and-date",
             fallback_version=_version.version,
         )