From 22f77b908f31cd4d0de77a16a77f868843322f34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Waldmann <tw@waldmann-edv.de>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 00:20:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] implement borgmajor/minor/patch placeholders, fixes #1694

---
 borg/__init__.py | 9 ++-------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/borg/__init__.py b/borg/__init__.py
index 2dcf95316..9ac0e0f90 100644
--- a/borg/__init__.py
+++ b/borg/__init__.py
@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
-import re
+from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 
 from ._version import version as __version__
 
-version_re = r'(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)'
 
-m = re.match(version_re, __version__)
-if m:
-    __version_tuple__ = tuple(map(int, m.groups()))
-else:
-    raise RuntimeError("Can't parse __version__: %r" % __version__)
+__version_tuple__ = tuple(LooseVersion(__version__).version[:3])