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     * method's declaring class. This counterpart method is publicly callable.
     *
     * @param method a method whose publicly callable counterpart is requested.
     * @return the publicly callable counterpart method. Note that if the parameter
     *         method is itself declared by a public class, this method is an identity
     *         function.
     */

// Copyright (c) 2015-2022 MinIO, Inc.
//
// This file is part of MinIO Object Storage stack
//
// This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
//
// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful

 *       {@code ImmutableList} is declared to forbid {@code ImmutableList<@Nullable String>}.)
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can return {@code null} regardless
 *       of the type argument supplied by the user of the class: For example, {@code
 *       ImmutableMap.get} returns {@code @Nullable E} because the method can return {@code null}

 *       {@code ImmutableList} is declared to forbid {@code ImmutableList<@Nullable String>}.)
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can return {@code null} regardless
 *       of the type argument supplied by the user of the class: For example, {@code
 *       ImmutableMap.get} returns {@code @Nullable E} because the method can return {@code null}

 *       {@code ImmutableList} is declared to forbid {@code ImmutableList<@Nullable String>}.)
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can return {@code null} regardless
 *       of the type argument supplied by the user of the class: For example, {@code
 *       ImmutableMap.get} returns {@code @Nullable E} because the method can return {@code null}

 *       {@code ImmutableList} is declared to forbid {@code ImmutableList<@Nullable String>}.)
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can return {@code null} regardless
 *       of the type argument supplied by the user of the class: For example, {@code
 *       ImmutableMap.get} returns {@code @Nullable E} because the method can return {@code null}

 *       {@code ImmutableList} is declared to forbid {@code ImmutableList<@Nullable String>}.)
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can return {@code null} regardless
 *       of the type argument supplied by the user of the class: For example, {@code
 *       ImmutableMap.get} returns {@code @Nullable E} because the method can return {@code null}

 *       {@code ImmutableList} is declared to forbid {@code ImmutableList<@Nullable String>}.)
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can return {@code null} regardless
 *       of the type argument supplied by the user of the class: For example, {@code
 *       ImmutableMap.get} returns {@code @Nullable E} because the method can return {@code null}

 * version number to server in all branches when a version is released.
 * E.x when M.N.c is released M.N.c+1 is added to the Version class mentioned above in all the following branches:
 *  `M.N`, `M.x` and `master` so we can reliably assume that the leafs of the version tree are unreleased.
 * This convention is enforced by checking the versions we consider to be unreleased against an