fix: improve version_compare to drop hashes #3566
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Currently version_compare rasies an error when it gets a hash, since we can't really compare those without more knowledge of the product. This changes the code to silently drop hashes and similar distro markers from the end of versions, which should make our code more robust to real-life cases. We may also want to put in an error handler to log the versions we can't handle without halting the program, but this doesn't do that yet.
Fixes #3556