Bring to the developer's attention that a version bump might be missing.

salt/version.py

@@ -73,13 +73,24 @@ def __get_version(version, version_info):
         parsed_version_info = tuple([
             int(g) for g in match.groups()[:3] if g.isdigit()
         ])
-        if parsed_version_info != version_info:
+
+        if parsed_version_info > version_info:
             warnings.warn(
-                'In order to get the proper salt version with the '
-                'git hash you need to update salt\'s local git '
-                'tags. Something like: \'git fetch --tags\' or '
-                '\'git fetch --tags upstream\' if you followed '
-                'salt\'s contribute documentation. The version '
+                'The parsed version info, `{0}`, is bigger than the one '
+                'defined in the file, `{1}`. Missing version bump?'.format(
+                    parsed_version_info,
+                    version_info
+                ),
+                UserWarning,
+                stacklevel=2
+            )
+            return version, version_info
+        elif parsed_version_info < version_info:
+            warnings.warn(
+                'In order to get the proper salt version with the git hash '
+                'you need to update salt\'s local git tags. Something like: '
+                '\'git fetch --tags\' or \'git fetch --tags upstream\' if '
+                'you followed salt\'s contribute documentation. The version '
                 'string WILL NOT include the git hash.',
                 UserWarning,
                 stacklevel=2

setup.py

@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ class Clean(clean):
 
 install_version_template = """\
 # This file was auto-generated by salt's setup on \
-{date:%A, %d %B %Y @ %H:%m:%S UTC}'.
+{date:%A, %d %B %Y @ %H:%m:%S UTC}.
 
 __version__ = {version!r}
 __version_info__ = {version_info!r}