Hello, The version update warning banner for https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-office/libreoffice is specifying a version that does not exit yet (maybe in the far future). The current available version is 7.5.9 which is still supported and the latest version is 7.6.4. However, the banner is asking to update to 24.2.0.2!
This information comes from repology, and it appears the 24.2.0.2 does appear to be for a real version. That being 24.2.0_rc2. https://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/ https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/?version=24.2.0 https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/24.2
(In reply to Alfred Wingate from comment #1) > This information comes from repology, and it appears the 24.2.0.2 does > appear to be for a real version. That being 24.2.0_rc2. > > https://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/ > https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/?version=24.2.0 > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/24.2 The version control system used by Libreoffice seems to be quite disastrous. I am unable to comprehend their decision, but it appears that they have made a significant and perplexing version update. IMHO we should stick to stability and I'm hoping that the next major version will be 8.x.x.
(In reply to sanomiad from comment #2) > (In reply to Alfred Wingate from comment #1) > > This information comes from repology, and it appears the 24.2.0.2 does > > appear to be for a real version. That being 24.2.0_rc2. > > > > https://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/ > > https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/?version=24.2.0 > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/24.2 > > The version control system used by Libreoffice seems to be quite disastrous. > I am unable to comprehend their decision, but it appears that they have made > a significant and perplexing version update. IMHO we should stick to > stability and I'm hoping that the next major version will be 8.x.x. The version coming in 2024-02-XX is seemingly going to be named 24.2.x; I think that if there is a bug at all it is that an RC version should be suppressed. When I erroneously marked this confirmed, it hadn't occurred to me that upstream changed to a date-based number.
https://repology.org/project/libreoffice/report Looking through the reports it appears this has caused issues before. There is no good way to differentiate pre-releases from real releases. I don't think anything reasonable can be done about this. Even so the effect is minor as this information is mostly targeted at the maintainers of the ebuild.
(In reply to sanomiad from comment #0) > Hello, > > The version update warning banner for > https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-office/libreoffice is specifying a > version that does not exit yet (maybe in the far future). > > The current available version is 7.5.9 which is still supported and the > latest version is 7.6.4. However, the banner is asking to update to 24.2.0.2! You should've been tried some research before filing this bug at least. Many free software focused news portals released related articles half a year ago when this change was proposed, and did it again recently, as the version that follows new scheme finally came out.
