Deb installation is broken with the new version with the "v" prefix

[vkuptcov]

Problem statement

I have go-swagger installed from the debian package according to the instruction https://goswagger.io/install.html
I'm trying to update it and receive the next error:

$ sudo apt-get install swagger 
...
The following packages will be upgraded:
  swagger
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/swagger_v0.17.0_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' near line 2 package 'swagger':
 error in 'Version' field string 'v0.17.0': version number does not start with digit
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/swagger_v0.17.0_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

It happens because the new version has the v prefix v0.17.0, and the previous does not: 0.16.0

Environment

swagger version: v.0.17.0
OS: Ubuntu 18.04

[AgrimPrasad]

Saw this issue too on our build. Should change the new version name to 0.17.0

[gregmarr]

The v was added for compatibility with the new Go modules.

[casualjim]

I'll update our build script so the debs end up with the expected format

[AgrimPrasad]

@casualjim Thanks, please let us know when it's fixed. We just re-tried the build and saw the same error again.

dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-7BKFfX/7-swagger_v0.17.0_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' near line 2 package 'swagger':
 error in 'Version' field string 'v0.17.0': version number does not start with digit

[fredbi]

Look for the latest release: on bintray, I can see the package name is now swagger_0.17.2_amd64.deb

[AgrimPrasad]

Thanks, can we also update the package name here? https://dl.bintray.com/go-swagger/goswagger-debian/

Because our build script runs the following:

echo "deb [trusted=yes] https://dl.bintray.com/go-swagger/goswagger-debian ubuntu main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list &&

apt-get install -y swagger

[AgrimPrasad]

To clarify the comment above, I mean can we remove swagger_v0.17.0_amd64.deb from bintray?

[casualjim]

I think i've done that now

[AgrimPrasad]

Thanks! Works great. I believe we can close this issue now.

[vkuptcov]

I've just checked the new package 0.17.2 and it doesn't contain binary. And the package size a bit smaller than it should be:

/var/cache/apt/archives# ls -lah swagger_*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  996 окт 25 05:04 swagger_0.17.2_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5,2M окт  7 06:34 swagger_v0.17.0_amd64.deb

[AgrimPrasad]

Yes sorry, I didn't check the new package earlier. It indeed doesn't contain the binary. Could it be checked again please?

[AgrimPrasad]

Any updates on the missing binary issue? Or should I create a separate issue for that?

[vkuptcov]

I've just checked the package
https://dl.bintray.com/go-swagger/goswagger-debian/swagger_0.17.2_amd64.deb
The binary is still missed. And it's the latest package there.

[AgrimPrasad]

Created #1793 for the missing binary issue, as that's different from the issue title here, and the original issue mentioned here has indeed been fixed.

[casualjim]

i've just updated the deb file