296804 - Deer Park Alpha: Can't install old extensions whose MaxVersion has been bumped to 1.0+ on u.m.o but not in install.rdf

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 293419

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Anton P.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+

I have bumped my MaxVersion for the extension "Open link in..." to 1.0+ (for use
in Deer Park Alpha 1) via the update.mozilla.org form in the Developer Control
Panel, but I have not actually resubmitted an XPI to u.m.o, so their existing
one (Open link in... 1.3) still has an old install.rdf file which says that
MaxVersion is 1.0.

It says on http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/extensions/update.html (under
the heading 'What does all this mean?' at the bottom) that "you do not need to
release an updated XPI with an ammended install.rdf file as long as you keep the
remote metadata up to date", and that when one installs the XPI "and Firefox
deems it incompatible based on the information in the install.rdf file, Firefox
will check with the update service/RDF at that time to determine whether or not
it really is compatible."

U.m.o has honoured my metadata change and now lists my extension as being
compatible with 1.0+. However, when I try to install the extension
(https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=379),
Deer Park downloads the xpi, opens the Extension Manager but brings up a dialog
saying "Open link in... 1.3 could not be installed because it is not compatible
with Deer Park 1.0+. (Open link in... 1.3 will only work with Deer Park versions
from 0.9 to 1.0)."

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:



Expected Results:  
Extension should have installed fine, according to the specs at
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/extensions/update.html

Comment 1

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

It installed fine for me with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050604 Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005060409

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This is a dup of one of our existing bugs, fixed post-1.1a1.

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

dupe of bug 293419 , which was unfortunately checked in AFTER Deer Park A1 was
released 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 293419 ***