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 | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/pym/portage/news.py b/pym/portage/news.py
index 784ba70..ea1b947 100644
--- a/pym/portage/news.py
+++ b/pym/portage/news.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ __all__ = ["NewsManager", "NewsItem", "DisplayRestriction",
"DisplayInstalledRestriction",
"count_unread_news", "display_news_notifications"]
+import fnmatch
import io
import logging
import os as _os
@@ -270,7 +271,8 @@ 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
+ not
fnmatch.fnmatch(format_match.group(1), '1.*')):
invalids.append((i + 1, line.rstrip('\n')))
break
if not line.startswith('D'):
--
2.7.3
