Hi,

Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz> writes:

>> There are about 50-60 packages like this.
>>
>> I'm not sure how much effort should be spent including them, and for
>> some of them I'm not sure what our ideal behavior *is*.  Even if we
>> could reliably detect them, should "alpha" or "dev" packages be returned
>> by the updater?
>
> I don’t think we usually include alpha or rc releases, so updater
> probably shouldn’t return them either.  Not sure how we would try to
> detect alpha/beta/rc releases, though, besides running something like
>
>   (string-match? "(alpha|beta|rc|dev)" TAG)
>
> On each tag.

That heuristic is pretty good.  (It might miss a few, but I'd rather
accidentally include some alpha/beta/rc releases than risk excluding
real ones.)

We could then safely sort tags with just the prefix removed -- this takes care
of "1.1f" coming after "1.1", and so on.

Actually, it looks like there's only a few packages with a suffix;
instead, we can probably just only use a suffix if they provide
'tag-suffix.  This is all of them (and the "dev" ones probably shouldn't
be suffixes, just part of the version):

(commit (string-append "v" version "-stable"))))
(commit (string-append version "-stable"))))
(commit (string-append version "-Leia"))))
(commit (string-append "haddock-" version "-release"))))
(commit (string-append "v" version "-8.13"))))
(commit (string-append "v" version "-oss"))))
(commit (string-append "v" version "-stable"))))
(commit (string-append "ddskk-" version "_" code-name))))
(commit (string-append version "-freebsdport"))))
(commit (string-append version "-dev"))))
(commit (string-append version "-release-20210531143054"))))
(commit (string-append version "-release-20210412001032"))))
(commit (string-append "v" version "-debian"))))
(commit (string-append version "dev"))))
(commit (string-append version "_Linux"))
(commit (string-append version "R"))))
(commit (string-append "jdk-" version "-ga"))))
(commit (string-append "jdk-" version "-ga"))))
(commit (string-append "jdk-" version "-ga"))))
(commit (string-append "jdk-" version "-ga"))))
(commit (string-append version "-opt"))))
(commit (string-append "1.1-" version "-RELEASE"))))

Additionally, these are all the weird version strings I could find that
are actually used as the commit: