Bug #17012
Updated by Ward Vandewege about 4 years ago
The build/version-at-commit.sh script doesn't handle the scenario right after a major release well.
For code that hasn't changed since the major release, it generates version numbers without taking the major release tag into account.
For instance; as of commit xxx on master, which is after the fork point of the 2.1-dev branch, these packages were generated for debian10:
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arvados-api-server_2.1.0-1_amd64.deb
arvados-client_2.1.0~dev20201012021212-1_amd64.deb
arvados-controller_2.1.0~dev20201012021212-1_amd64.deb
arvados-dispatch-cloud_2.1.0~dev20201012021212-1_amd64.deb
arvados-docker-cleaner_2.2.0~dev20201015145956-1_amd64.deb
arvados-git-httpd_2.1.0~dev20201012021212-1_amd64.deb
arvados-health_2.1.0~dev20201012021212-1_amd64.deb
arvados-src_2.2.0~dev20201015145956-1_all.deb
arvados-sync-groups_2.2.0~dev20201013141632-1_amd64.deb
arvados-workbench_2.1.0~dev20201012021212-1_amd64.deb
arvados-ws_2.1.0~dev20201012021212-1_amd64.deb
crunch-dispatch-local_2.1.0~dev20201012021212-1_amd64.deb
crunch-dispatch-slurm_2.1.0~dev20201012021212-1_amd64.deb
crunch-run_2.1.0~dev20201012021212-1_amd64.deb
crunchstat_2.1.0~dev20201012021212-1_amd64.deb
keep-balance_2.1.0~dev20201012021212-1_amd64.deb
keep-block-check_2.1.0~dev20201012021212-1_amd64.deb
keep-exercise_2.1.0~dev20201012021212-1_amd64.deb
keepproxy_2.1.0~dev20201012021212-1_amd64.deb
keep-rsync_2.1.0~dev20201012021212-1_amd64.deb
keepstore_2.1.0~dev20201012021212-1_amd64.deb
keep-web_2.1.0~dev20201012021212-1_amd64.deb
libpam-arvados-go_2.1.0~dev20201012021212-1_amd64.deb
python3-arvados-cwl-runner_2.2.0~dev20201015145956-1_amd64.deb
python3-arvados-fuse_2.2.0~dev20201015145956-1_amd64.deb
python3-arvados-python-client_2.2.0~dev20201015145956-1_amd64.deb
python3-crunchstat-summary_2.2.0~dev20201015145956-1_amd64.deb
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You can see that the python packages have a correct version number (2.2.0~dev20201015145956), which is because there are some commits in master (post the 2.1-dev branch fork) that touch the Python part of the codebase.
For other parts of the codebase, a version string is generated that starts with 2.1.0~dev, which is incorrect.