🐛 [BUG] outdated subcommand lists latest (iOS) version of an app in place of (Mac) version of the app with same name (from same authors)

[gmerlino]

Your Environment

• mas version: 1.8.6
• macOS version (system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType -detailLevel mini): 13.3.1 (22E261)

mas Install Method

• brew install mas (homebrew-core)
• [] mas-cli/tap
• [] .pkg installer from releases
• [] Built from source
  • Fork/branch: ? (e.g. mas-cli/main)
  • Xcode version: 10.?

Describe the Bug

iOS app versions (mistakenly) being included (and compared) when checking outdated (Mac) apps

To Reproduce

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4. See error

Expected Behavior

mas outdated should not produce as output:

967805235 Paste (3.1.9 -> 3.2)

considering there exists no 3.2 version (yet) of the Paste app on the (Mac) App Store.

Actual Behavior

At each invocation of

mas upgrade

Paste (version 3.1.9) will be (re)installed.
By checking with:

mas outdated

I get the following output (before, and as well after, invoking upgrade):

967805235 Paste (3.1.9 -> 3.2)

so I may guess this (unexpected) output to point right at the root cause.

In particular, there is no 3.2 release (yet), as I guess MAS is (mistakenly) checking the versions of the iOS flavour of the same App, as the iOS latest version of the app in the store indeed is at 3.2, and conflating/comparing the versions both from the Mac side and the iOS side. In this case, iOS version (3.2) would be the latest, compared to Mac version (3.1.9) and naturally take precedence, hence being listed among "outdated" apps.

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Did it work in a previous version?

[timweston]

I'm having the same problem with mas. mas outdated shows new versions available, but the new versions are actually the latest iOS app version. Then, as a result, mas upgrade continually tries to upgrade the apps to the new versions.

mas outdated:

CardPointers in Mac App Store:

CardPointers in iOS App Store (the "new" version that mas says is available)

1Blocker in Mac App Store:

1Blocker in iOS App Store (the "new" version that mas says is available)

[ming-hao-xu]

Same issue on app 'flow'

1423210932 Flow (2.12.0 -> 3.0.2)

[oschrenk]

Same for

1115567069 Health Auto Export (2.1.4 -> 7.0.9)
905953485 NordVPN (8.8.3 -> 8.13.0)
1423210932 Flow (2.13.0 -> 3.1.1)

[phatblat]

I've published a build with a potential fix (#505) for this on the releases page:
https://github.com/mas-cli/mas/releases/tag/v1.8.7-beta.1

Could I get some volunteers to install the .pkg attached to that release to see if this resolves any of these issues?

[gmerlino]

The beta solves the issue (#491) for all (8) the (wrong iOS) packages but one: the only holdout now is Testflight.

[phatblat]

@gmerlino Can you share your mas outdated output? I want to investigate the specific versions of Testflight in the iTunes API.

[gmerlino]

@gmerlino Can you share your mas outdated output? I want to investigate the specific versions of Testflight in the iTunes API.

899247664 TestFlight (3.3.0 -> 3.4.3)

[suhaybu]

Tried using mas 1.8.7-beta.1 but the issue still persists.

Log:

suhayb@iPhone-179 ~ % mas version
1.8.7-beta.1
suhayb@iPhone-179 ~ % mas outdated
1423210932 Flow (2.13.2 -> 3.2.5)
suhayb@iPhone-179 ~ % mas upgrade
Upgrading 1 outdated application:
Flow (2.13.2) -> (3.2.5)
==> Downloading Flow - Focus & Pomodoro Timer
==> Installed Flow - Focus & Pomodoro Timer
suhayb@iPhone-179 ~ % mas outdated
1423210932 Flow (2.13.2 -> 3.2.5)