Due to a recently accepted contribution, I'm getting confused.

Simple question: how to we handle a release that holds multiple versions of the same movie? Example: a 8-disc release of the film "Insert Title Here", that contains the Theatrical Cut, two "International" Theatrical Cuts, a Director's Cut, a Producer's Cut, three Workprins, and an Ultimate Cut, scattered on five discs, including three discs of Bonus Materials (or any other variation of cuts and Bonus Materials).

Is this a Box Set, or a single movie release including the various releases as Bonus Feature Films? Or have I overseen a possibility given by the Contribution Rules?

You don't seem to be describing any sort of seamless branching which was the reason the runtime allowed for the longest possibility. This in accord with the rules.

Your poll is flawed.  As this is a single film, there can be no profiles for the Bonus Material discs.  Those are only allowed when the bonus material covers multiple, different, movies in a set.

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You don't seem to be describing any sort of seamless branching which was the reason the runtime allowed for the longest possibility. This in accord with the rules.

No, seamless branching is quite clearly described in the rules. I have no questions about that.

What I'm asking about are releases of multiple cuts of one movie on multiple disc. Such discs usually hold one alternate version of the movie. In some cases there can be multple versions on one disc, but they don't use necessarely seamless branching – especially German distributors prefer to include two or three distinct (but massively compressed) A/V-streams instead of seamless branching, because it's cheaper.

My question aims specifically at releases that are currently set-up under the Bonus Feature Film rule. For example the German releases of "Almost Famous", "The Butterfly Effect" and "Sin City" are currently set up that way, with one "main" disc/profile and the additional Director's Cut (often undubbed, only with subtitles) on a second disc. That's the way it has been done for quite a few years now. If the alternate versions of those movies (always on separate discs, never done by seamless or integrated branching) are now considered equal versions, all those releases need to be changed into Box Sets – which is quite the opposite of how it's been done until a few days ago.

I don't mind either way, I just want to have it done uniformly at the end. 

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For example the German releases of "Almost Famous", [...]

Now this is a special case, because the extended version of "Almost Famous" even has a different title ("Untitled"), so it does actually fall under the "Bonus Film"-rule.

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Quoting M_E:

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Simple question: how to we handle a release that holds multiple versions of the same movie?

To answer your question, I believe I would profile the theatrical cut and add notes in the "Other Features" field about the additional cuts.

I would do the same and add all discs with a version of the movie on it to the list of discs
main feature disc id
directors cut (disc id)
etc