winget version not matching with internal version

[masterflitzer]

Current behavior

when installing devtoys via winget the version tagged 2.0.2 installs the version 2.0-preview.2, this results in the same version always being offered as update in winget (infinite upgrade loop when running winget upgrade)

the problem is that the package manager version (2.0.2) doesn't match with the internal version (2.0-preview.2):

• in devtoys > settings > about you can see: 2.0-preview.2
• in the DevToys-app.DevToys.installer.yaml file you can see: PackageVersion: 2.0.2

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible)

powershell:

winget install DevToys-app.DevToys
winget upgrade
# devtoys is always offered as upgrade, so this can be repeated infinitely:
winget upgrade DevToys-app.DevToys

Expected behavior

winget should upgrade to the latest version and then stop offering updates until a new one is released

Screenshots

notice how version (2.0-preview.2) and available (2.0.2) columns differ even though the latest version is installed

~
❯ winget upgrade
Name                                  Id                  Version       Available
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DevToys Preview version 2.0-preview.2 DevToys-app.DevToys 2.0-preview.2 2.0.2
1 upgrades available.
6 package(s) have pins that prevent upgrade. Use the 'winget pin' command to view and edit pins. Using the --include-pinned argument may show more results.

~
❯

Workaround

No response

Affected platforms

No response

Affected DevToys kind

DevToys (app with GUI)

DevToys Version

Version 2.0-preview.2

Relevant Assets/Logs

relevant github comments:

• New package: DevToys 2.0.1 microsoft/winget-pkgs#156567 (comment)
• Add Devtoys to winget #641 (comment)
• Add Devtoys to winget #641 (comment)

[veler]

Hi @stephengillie,
I hope it's OK to ping you here. I'm wondering if you have any recommendation on what to do with such issue.
Thank you very much in advance for your help :-)

[stephengillie]

Yes. The error is that the PackageVersion is 2.0.1 but should be 2.0-preview.1.

• This happened again with 2.0.2 and 2.0-preview.2. This is because these are the bits that the package manager uses to match repo data with Registry data.
• In New package: DevToys 2.0.1 microsoft/winget-pkgs#156567 (comment), the version in the application was fixed, but this didn't "backpropagate" into the manifest.
• If the application matches the Registry, then a DisplayVersion isn't necessary and the PackageVersion should match both.

[veler]

Yes. The error is that the PackageVersion is 2.0.1 but should be 2.0-preview.1.

• This happened again with 2.0.2 and 2.0-preview.2. This is because these are the bits that the package manager uses to match repo data with Registry data.
• In New package: DevToys 2.0.1 microsoft/winget-pkgs#156567 (comment), the version in the application was fixed, but this didn't "backpropagate" into the manifest.
• If the application matches the Registry, then a DisplayVersion isn't necessary and the PackageVersion should match both.

Thank you very much! I just released an update and opened a PR here: microsoft/winget-pkgs#159727
Hopefully it's well done this time. Please let me know if you find anything wrong. Thank you again for your help, I really appreciate a lot!

[masterflitzer]

@veler after the changes it works perfectly now, thank you very much for jumping through all the hoops to make devtoys available on winget, i very much appreciate it