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[jira] [Updated] (MNG-7714) sp < final

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Elliotte Rusty Harold updated MNG-7714:
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    Summary: sp < final  (was: sp == final)

> sp < final
> ----------
>
>                 Key: MNG-7714
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-7714
>             Project: Maven
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Elliotte Rusty Harold
>            Priority: Major
>
> It is easy to demonstrate that this is not fixed and also not in line with the spec, with just this one important example (yes this does break for us):
> $ jbang org.apache.maven:maven-artifact:3.8.6 1.0.final-redhat-0001 1.0.sp1-redhat-0001
> Display parameters as parsed by Maven (in canonical form and as a list of tokens) and comparison result:
> 1. 1.0.final-redhat-0001 -> 1-redhat-1; tokens: [1, [redhat, [1]]]
>    1.0.final-redhat-0001 < 1.0.sp1-redhat-0001
> 2. 1.0.sp1-redhat-0001 -> 1.0.sp-1-redhat-1; tokens: [1, 0, sp, [1, [redhat, [1]]]]
> versus
> $ jbang org.apache.maven:maven-artifact:3.8.7 1.0.final-redhat-0001 1.0.sp1-redhat-0001
> Display parameters as parsed by Maven (in canonical form and as a list of tokens) and comparison result:
> 1. 1.0.final-redhat-0001 -> 1-redhat-1; tokens: [1, [redhat, [1]]]
>    1.0.final-redhat-0001 > 1.0.sp1-redhat-0001
> 2. 1.0.sp1-redhat-0001 -> 1-sp-1-redhat-1; tokens: [1, [sp, [1, [redhat, [1]]]]]
> As you can see, our `sp` release is now ordered after our `final` release despite this clear text in the "spec":
>     Non-numeric tokens ("qualifiers") have the alphabetical order, except for the following tokens which come first in this order: "alpha" < "beta" < "milestone" < "rc" = "cr" < "snapshot" < "" = "final" = "ga" < "sp"
> It's clear that this tokenization isn't really correct by any reasonable measurement, and breaking large amounts of (our) existing artifacts in the wild is definitely not OK.



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