microsoft / microsoft/winget-cli
Portable Packages can Overlap Display Version
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Description
Brief description of your issue
With some of the recent discoveries around DisplayVersion and range mapping, it seems that portable packages were/are allowed to have DisplayVersion's that are exactly the same between two different package versions
Steps to reproduce
https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pull/180092
Expected behavior
Portables are included in overlapping range check
Actual behavior
Error / Warning was not thrown
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Research direction
Start with the overlapping range check and the DisplayVersion/range-mapping behavior described in the issue, then reproduce the case from microsoft/winget-pkgs#180092. Done means portable packages participate in the overlapping range check and the conflicting versions produce the expected error or warning.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100