Option to filter release

[eclipseo]

So I have a strange request, for Go packages in Fedora, we package import path, for examples:

github.com/lestrrat-go/backoff/v1
github.com/lestrrat-go/backoff/v2
github.com/lestrrat-go/backoff/v3

For each import path we have a separate package:

golang-github-lestrrat-backoff-1
golang-github-lestrrat-backoff-2
golang-github-lestrrat-backoff-3

The issue is when we put this into Anitya, we get bug filed for version 3.x.x on the v1 package.

So I'd like a way for Anitya to only check for update with the major version 1, the major version 2 and so on.

So far, I have achieved that by putting:

Version filter: v2;v3:v4

to exclude these version in the v1 package.

But this is not future proof because, v5, v6 could appear in the future.

Thanks.

[eclipseo]

I guess I need the opposite of filter version behaviour, i.e. a field like "limit version" would return versions starting/containing the string.

[Zlopez]

The best option for now is to create multiple projects in Anitya for different versions and map them accordingly. And just create a correct version filter for each of them.

We should probably solve this in the-new-hotness which is filling the bugs, but I'm not sure how to correctly map the version to package. I see two option either one package in one distro per one project or fill the bug to each package that is mapped to particular project.