721727 - AMO API doesn't return older versions of an add-on when they are compatible

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: API, defect)

Description

[Jean Claveau]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0a1) Gecko/20120127 Firefox/12.0a1
Build ID: 20120127031148

Steps to reproduce:

If you install the current version of thunderbird (9.0.1) and then look for lighting in the extension tab, you won't find it.


Actual results:

Lightning doesn't exists for tb 9.*.


Expected results:

Lightning 1.1 should be available.


This is because the lightning version for tb 9 is the 1.1 and the last one is the 1.2 wich works well only on tb 10+ (https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/thunderbird/addon/lightning/versions/).

But tb 10.0 is currently a beta!!

It looks like the extension manager doesn't search the last "compatible" version of an extension.

Comment 1

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to Jean Claveau from comment #0)
Yes. I checked and it just checks the last released version and compares it with the Thunderbird version. If they are not compatible, the add-on doesn't appear.

Comment 2

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

Related to bug 705578

Comment 3

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Thanks for filing this.  Due to resource constraints we are closing bugs which we won't realistically be able to fix.  If you have a patch that applies to this bug please reopen.

For more info see http://micropipes.com/blog/2014/09/24/the-great-add-on-bug-triage/