Version 2.10 is converted to 2.1

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli]

Setting an snap with version: 2.10 is converted implicitely to a numeric value and set to 2.1 (as in hello_2.1_amd64.snap) for instance.

We need to treat the version always as a string.

Note that snap/meta/snap.yaml is already converted to 2.1.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I don't think snapcraft can just "treat the version always as a string" without departing from (unfortunate) YAML syntax:

  >>> import yaml
  >>> yaml.safe_load('version: 2.10')
  {'version': 2.1}
  >>> yaml.safe_load('version: "2.10"')
  {'version': '2.10'}

Perhaps the right answer is to go through documentation and make sure that the examples for version: always make it be an explicit string?

[Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)]

This was fix on 3.x