Only check the major version of news items, as GLEP 42 specifies an
upgrade path for them. Future revisions to news item formats may yield
minor number increments. GLEP 42 further ensures that only
forwards-compatible changes may incur, as incompatible changes demand a
major version increment.
Suggested-by: Ulrich Müller <u...@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Berntsen <berna...@gentoo.org>
---
pym/portage/news.py | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/pym/portage/news.py b/pym/portage/news.py
index 784ba70..f52d96e 100644
--- a/pym/portage/news.py
+++ b/pym/portage/news.py
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ class NewsItem(object):
# Optimization to ignore regex matchines on lines that
# will never match
format_match = _formatRE.match(line)
- if format_match is not None and format_match.group(1)
!= '1.0':
+ if format_match is not None and format_match.group(1)
!= '1.*':
invalids.append((i + 1, line.rstrip('\n')))
break
if not line.startswith('D'):
--
2.7.3
