GNOME versioning scheme leads to "versions are not in order"

hughsie / appstream-glib

This library provides objects and helper methods to help reading and writing AppStream metadata.

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GNOME versioning scheme leads to "versions are not in order" #417

Open sophie-h opened 3 years ago

sophie-h commented 3 years ago

$ appstream-util validate-relax org.gnome.Software.appdata.xml 
org.gnome.Software.appdata.xml: FAILED:
• tag-invalid           : <release> versions are not in order [40 before 40.rc]
Validation of files failed

hughsie commented 3 years ago

On Fedora we use librpm to do the vercmp, but on other distros we fall back to a more naive implementation. Unfortunately for rpm:

$ rpmdev-vercmp 40 40.rc
40 < 40.rc