verifybinaries: remove awkward bitcoin-core prefix handling

Author: theuni

contrib/verifybinaries/README.md

@@ -44,8 +44,6 @@ Validate releases with default settings:
 ```sh
 ./contrib/verifybinaries/verify.py pub 22.0
 ./contrib/verifybinaries/verify.py pub 22.0-rc2
-./contrib/verifybinaries/verify.py pub bitcoin-core-23.0
-./contrib/verifybinaries/verify.py pub bitcoin-core-23.0-rc1
 ```
 
 Get JSON output and don't prompt for user input (no auto key import):
@@ -66,12 +64,12 @@ specified keys, while requiring a threshold of at least 10 trusted signatures:
 If you only want to download the binaries of certain platform, add the corresponding suffix, e.g.:
 
 ```sh
-./contrib/verifybinaries/verify.py pub bitcoin-core-22.0-osx
-./contrib/verifybinaries/verify.py pub bitcoin-core-22.0-rc2-win64
+./contrib/verifybinaries/verify.py pub 22.0-osx
+./contrib/verifybinaries/verify.py pub 22.0-rc2-win64
 ```
 
 If you do not want to keep the downloaded binaries, specify anything as the second parameter.
 
 ```sh
-./contrib/verifybinaries/verify.py pub bitcoin-core-22.0 delete
+./contrib/verifybinaries/verify.py pub 22.0 delete
 ```

contrib/verifybinaries/verify.py

@@ -99,9 +99,6 @@ def bool_from_env(key, default=False) -> bool:
 VERSION_EXAMPLE = "22.0-x86_64 or 0.21.0-rc2-osx"
 
 def parse_version_string(version_str):
-    if version_str.startswith(VERSIONPREFIX):  # remove version prefix
-        version_str = version_str[len(VERSIONPREFIX):]
-
     parts = version_str.split('-')
     version_base = parts[0]
     version_rc = ""
@@ -290,8 +287,8 @@ def join_url(host: str) -> str:
         log.error(
             f"couldn't fetch file ({url}). "
             "Have you specified the version number in the following format?\n"
-            f"[{VERSIONPREFIX}]{VERSION_FORMAT} "
-            f"(example: {VERSIONPREFIX}{VERSION_EXAMPLE})\n"
+            f"{VERSION_FORMAT} "
+            f"(example: {VERSION_EXAMPLE})\n"
             f"wget output:\n{indent(output)}")
         return ReturnCode.FILE_GET_FAILED
     else: