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The Update Framework specification
https://theupdateframework.github.io/specification/
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Repository operations: when to update metadata version #253

Open joshuagl opened 1 year ago

joshuagl commented 1 year ago

The repository operations section of the specification should make it crystal clear when the VERSION in metadata should be increased.

This has come up recently for two repository implementations:

  1. https://github.com/theupdateframework/python-tuf/issues/2020
  2. https://github.com/sigstore/root-signing/pull/410