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

Environment

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First steps

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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

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