895935 - AMO submissions manager shows 4x the same addon file

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Franz Erlendorf]

Attachment: Screenshot of version manager for my addon

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.72 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I uploaded a new version of my addon, compatible with all desktop versions and Android.  


Actual results:

AMO shows to me 4 addon files waiting for review, each for a different platform (Mac, Win, Linux, Android).  AMO copied the file 4 times.


Expected results:

Show 1 file.

Comment 1

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

This is expected behavior when you specify the platforms your add-on works on, as opposed to choosing "All". When you choose only some platforms, the file is duplicated for each of them, since the site handles platform compatibility at the file level.

So, this isn't really a bug.

Comment 2

[Franz Erlendorf]

This might be expected behaviour from the people who thought this up, but it's not expected at all for addon developers. When my addon supports three platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows) I get shown one file.  I add one more supported platform (Android), and it's suddenly for files.  This doesn't make any sense when you don't know the internal going-ons of that system, therefore please just hide that you internally store 4 files from developers, just show 1 file.