496476 - Warn add-on developers on upload if new add-on version is lower/inferior to current one

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 376638

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Developer Pages, defect)

Description

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

Warn add-on developers on upload if new add-on version is lower/inferior to current one.
In some other projects, the same version pair can have different comparing result (i.e. Video Lan Client where something like 0.1.2 follows 0.1.2a)

Example:
Infolister 0.10 followed 0.10a, the users won't get the update because the Toolkit version format detects this version as lower.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addons/versions/447
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Toolkit_version_format

Comment 1

[Dave Garrett]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Video Lan Client where something like 0.1.2 follows 0.1.2a
> 
> Infolister 0.10 followed 0.10a

Your wording is backwards. Infolister 0.10a followed (came after) 0.10 and VLC 0.1.2a follows 0.1.2.

Yes, a warning for this makes sense.