1654072 - Maintenance service does not update multiple times per day

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect, P3)

Description

[Adam Gashlin (he/him) [:agashlin] (ex-moco)]

If we updated to the first Nightly of a day (AM, roughly), and then the second (PM), then the maintenance service will not be updated because the version number hasn't changed; due to bug 1654068 it only changes once per day. This is risky because we assume that the system-wide maintenance service is at least as new as any updater that wants to talk to it, in this way a change to the service won't be picked up until the next day.

It's possible that the version can be made higher resolution, but not much higher, so there's always the possibility of several nightlies being triggered too quickly for it show up.

To protect against this we should consider updating the service if the version is >=, instead of just >.