automatically update documentation paths in release notes

etc/update_version.py

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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-other
+# Copyright (C) 2021 Contributors to the SLS Detector Package
+"""
+Script to update VERSION file with semantic versioning if provided as an argument, or with 0.0.0 if no argument is provided.
+"""
+
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from packaging.version import Version, InvalidVersion
+
+
+SCRIPT_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent 
+
+def get_version():
+
+    # Check at least one argument is passed
+    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
+        return "0.0.0"
+
+    version = sys.argv[1]
+
+    try:
+        v = Version(version)  # normalizcheck if version follows PEP 440 specification
+        #replace -
+        return version.replace("-", ".")
+    except InvalidVersion as e:
+        print(f"Invalid version {version}. Version format must follow semantic versioning format of python PEP 440 version identification specification.")
+        sys.exit(1)
+    
+
+def write_version_to_file(version):
+    version_file_path = Path(SCRIPT_DIR / "VERSION")
+    with open(version_file_path, "w") as version_file:
+        version_file.write(version)
+    print(f"Version {version} written to VERSION file.")
+
+# Main script
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+
+    version = get_version()
+    write_version_to_file(version)