614502 - Application manifest contains incorrect value of attribute version in assemblyIdentity element.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[palo misik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E) XPCOMViewer/0.9.2
Build Identifier: 

Firefox.exe 3.6.12.0 contains:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
<assemblyIdentity
        version="1.0.0.0"
        processorArchitecture="*"
        name="Firefox"
        type="win32"
/>
<description>Firefox</description>
<dependency>
...


But there should be 



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
<assemblyIdentity
        version="3.6.12.0"
        processorArchitecture="*"
        name="Firefox"
        type="win32"
/>
<description>Firefox</description>
<dependency>
...

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

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

Is there a problem doing this will fix? It is my understanding that the assembly version is for side by side assemblies which should be a non issue in this instance.

Also, the assemblyIdentity version does not have to match the app version. For example, many exe's that come with Win7 have an assemblyIdentity with version="5.1.0.0" with a different application version.

Comment 2

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Yeah, I don't see the point, and it doesn't seem worth the hassle to make this dynamically generated. We're not a side-by-side assembly, so the version is meaningless.