winget installs Firefox beta version during upgrade

[simkoG]

Brief description of your issue

When I upgrade all apps with winget upgrade --all "Firefox Developer Edition (x64 hu)" updates to the latest beta version of the program.

Steps to reproduce

winget upgrade --all

Expected behavior

Do not update to beta version by default.

Actual behavior

Install the beta version of the program.

Environment

> winget --info
Windows Package Manager v1.3.2691
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.19044.2251
System Architecture: X64
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.18.2691.0

Logs: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\DiagOutputDir

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[stephengillie]

This seems like it could be part of

• Support different release channels [released, beta, alpha] winget-cli#147

[dantman]

I'm not sure what the original issue is, but instead of release channels it could actually be the issue with winget's version resolution I'm having.

Name                                  Id                               Version    Available   Source
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Firefox Developer Edition (x64 en-US) Mozilla.Firefox.DeveloperEdition 108.0      108.0b9     winget

I have the latest version of Firefox Developer Edition (x64 en-US), which is 108.0. But winget insists that I "upgrade" to to the 108.0b9 release that came before 108.0. This issue is not a matter of not wanting beta versions, but winget considering betas to be newer than the stable release that comes after the beta.

i.e. Something is wrong with winget's version comparison algorithim.

[stephengillie]

Oh, it might be related to this one:

• Improve version parsing to better support "preambles" winget-cli#2394

It's for letters preceding the version number, but both fall under the general umbrella of 'Alphanumeric version "numbers" impacting sort order'.