603572 - Compatibility information from AMO is not applied to extensions to be installed

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 601836

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101011 Firefox/4.0b8pre

If you are installing an add-on which is marked as compatible on AMO, you will not be able to install that add-on when the install.rdf specifies a version range which doesn't fit to the current version of the application. Looks like that we do not check AOM for a version compatibility update.

Steps:
1. Use a Firefox 4.0b8pre build with a fresh profile
2. Try to install the Download Status Bar 0.9.7.1 (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/26/versions/)

Step 2 will not succeed because we only trust the maxVersion information of the install.rdf and do not use the compatibility information provided by AMO.

Comment 1

[John P Baker]

This seems that it might only be if there is a later compatible, and reviewed, version.

LOG addons.updates: Requesting https://versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org/update/VersionCheck.php?reqVersion=2&id={D4DD63FA-01E4-46a7-B6B1-EDAB7D6AD389}&version=0.9.7.1&maxAppVersion=4.0b5pre&status=userEnabled,incompatible&appID={ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}&appVersion=4.0b8pre&appOS=WINNT&appABI=x86-msvc&locale=en-US&currentAppVersion=4.0b8pre&updateType=49

LOG addons.updates: Found an update entry for {D4DD63FA-01E4-46a7-B6B1-EDAB7D6AD389} version 0.9.7.2

If I try hashcolouredtabs+ 0.4.26 from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4279/versions/ it is OK.

LOG addons.updates: Requesting https://versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org/update/VersionCheck.php?reqVersion=2&id=[e-mail]&version=0.4.26&maxAppVersion=3.7a6pre&status=userEnabled,incompatible&appID={ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}&appVersion=4.0b8pre&appOS=WINNT&appABI=x86-msvc&locale=en-US&currentAppVersion=4.0b8pre&updateType=49

LOG addons.updates: Found an update entry for [e-mail] version 0.4.26

Comment 2

[Dave Garrett]

Remote compatibility updates only work for the current version.

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Thanks Dave. Haven't searched the AMO product for an issue like that.