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Wrong indicated latest version in the downloads section of my project

Asked by AntoineM

For the project xul-ext-evolution-mirror, there is 2 releases.
Both of them were released 2 days ago on 2015-09-27.
The 1st release is named '0.3.2' and was released at 18:17 UTC.
The 2nd release is named '0.4.0' and was released at 20:43 UTC.

But on the project's homepage, in the downloads section, the latest version indicated is '0.3.2'.

It seems to me like this is a bug and maybe launchpad is only looking at the released date which is the same for both.
Or is it the standard behavior for Launchpad?

In that case, can I just modify the release date to get the correct latest version indicated on the homepage?

Thanks.

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Best Colin Watson (cjwatson) said : 		#1

The project index works out the latest release by walking through the project's series in order, and for each series walking through its releases in decreasing release date order. when it finds the first release with any download files, it stops. The key here is "the project's series in order": for series that are named like versions we know that we can take the newest version first, but if it doesn't look like a version number then (rightly or wrongly) we sort in *increasing* alphabetical order. This means that your "precise" series is checked before your "trusty" series.

The simplest fix is probably to stop naming your series after Ubuntu codenames. I would probably suggest calling them "0.3" and "0.4", but "12.04" and "14.04" would work too if you really want the project's upstream practices to be tied to Ubuntu releases.

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AntoineM (antoine-merle) said : 		#2

Thanks Colin Watson, that solved my question.