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Bug 707820 - Version numbers not detailed enough
Version numbers not detailed enough
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-software
Classification: Applications
Component: General
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Software maintainer(s)
GNOME Software maintainer(s)
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Reported: 2013-09-10 01:11 UTC by Matthias Clasen
Modified: 2013-10-08 10:40 UTC
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Description Matthias Clasen 2013-09-10 01:11:22 UTC 
I am currently seeing a firefox update in the updates page. It say 23.0.1 in the version field. But if I go to the installed page, it shows just the same version for firefox. Thats a bit confusing. pkgcon get-update-details reveals that the available update is from 23.0.1-4.fc20 to 23.0.1-5.fc20.
Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2013-09-10 09:17:38 UTC 
I asked Jakub before and he said not to show revision numbers at all and just show the main version number. I guess we could show the revision if the version and update_version are the same although that needs a bit of trickery in GsApp.
Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2013-09-20 15:27:23 UTC 
Another place where it is going to be odd is the history list. If a package gets many revisions, you may see the same version number multiple times in a row
Comment 3 Richard Hughes 2013-10-08 10:40:53 UTC 
commit f47b7d9db4877a845b3a96eeb8b1ad80534bae32
Author: Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>
Date:   Tue Oct 8 10:58:26 2013 +0100

    Show more detailed version numbers when required
    
    If we make the version numbers 'pretty' we can get to a situation where we show
    the same version string for the installed package *and* the update.
    If this happens, make the version number progressively more un-pretty until the
    version numbers differ.
    
    Resolves: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707820