diff -Naur ORIG/PKG-INFO PATCHED/PKG-INFO
--- ORIG/PKG-INFO	2026-04-07 20:31:19.014146323 +0000
+++ PATCHED/PKG-INFO	2026-04-07 20:31:19.014228277 +0000
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Metadata-Version: 2.1
 Name: gosam
-Version: 2.1.2+c307997
+Version: 2.1.2
 Summary: GoSam, An Automated One-Loop Matrix Element Generator
 Home-page: http://projects.hepforge.org/gosam/
 Download-URL: http://projects.hepforge.org/gosam/downloads/gosam-2.1.2+c307997.tar.gz
diff -Naur ORIG/setup.py PATCHED/setup.py
--- ORIG/setup.py	2026-04-07 20:31:19.014162870 +0000
+++ PATCHED/setup.py	2026-04-07 20:31:19.014258606 +0000
@@ -61,8 +61,6 @@
 		try:
 			with open("PKG-INFO", "r") as f:
 				for line in f:
-					if line.startswith("Version: "):
-						return re.search(r'([0-9.]*)\+([a-z,0-9]*)',line).group(2)
 					if line.startswith("Download-URL: "):
 						return re.search(r'gosam-([0-9.]*)\+([a-z,0-9]*)',line).group(2)
 			raise Exception("The git repository is missing and PKG-INFO has no version")
@@ -76,7 +74,7 @@
 
 INFO = {
 		'name': 'gosam',
-		'version': TAR_VERSION,
+		'version': VERSION,
 		'author': 'The GoSam (Golem and Samurai) Collaboration',
 		'author_email': 'gosam@hepforge.org',
 		'maintainer': 'The GoSam Collaboration',
