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+version=4
+# GitHub hosted projects
+opts="filenamemangle=s%(?:.*?)?v?(\d[\d.]*)\.tar\.gz%@PACKAGE@-$1.tar.gz%" \
+   https://github.com/corrados/jamulus/tags \
+   (?:.*?/)?v?(\d[\d.]*)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate