feat: add ignore-platform-version option to allow install on debian

action.yml

@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ inputs:
   allow-prereleases:
     description: "When 'true', a version range passed to 'python-version' input will match prerelease versions if no GA versions are found. Only 'x.y' version range is supported for CPython."
     default: false
+  ignore-platform-version:
+    description: "Ignore the platform version to allow usage on Debian"
+    default: false
+    required: false
 outputs:
   python-version:
     description: "The installed Python or PyPy version. Useful when given a version range as input."

src/install-python.ts

@@ -34,7 +34,18 @@ export async function findReleaseFromManifest(
 
 export async function getManifest(): Promise<tc.IToolRelease[]> {
   try {
-    return await getManifestFromRepo();
+    const manifest = await getManifestFromRepo();
+
+    if (core.getInput('ignore-platform-version')) {
+      // Display each tool
+      manifest.forEach(tool => {
+        tool.files.forEach(f => {
+          f.platform_version = undefined;
+        });
+      });
+    }
+
+    return manifest;
   } catch (err) {
     core.debug('Fetching the manifest via the API failed.');
     if (err instanceof Error) {