sometimes we can find release tarballs from sourceforge are not fully
distributed along all download mirrors leading to fetching faiilures,
depending on what download mirror will be chosen by sourceforge
servers.
As the project moved to github anyway, it's better to pull the tarballs
directly from github releases - serving the very same static artifacts.
Add an override UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI to enable devtool upgrade checks
Signed-off-by: Konrad Weihmann <kweihmann@outlook.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>