id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	launchpad_bug
652	"""appname"" in version shouldn't change keys of ""tahoe --version"""	warner	somebody	"When Zandr was merging the recent 1.3.0 release into his ""tahoe-server"" branch, he had to do a global-search-and-replace of ""allmydata-tahoe"" with ""tahoe-server"". Unfortunately it looks like this also affects the output of ""tahoe --version"" in a negative way: the ""key"" (i.e. the thing on the left side of the colon) changes. The relevant part of the output goes from:

{{{allmydata-tahoe: 1.3.0-r5678}}}

to:

{{{tahoe-server: 1.3.0-r1234}}}

Likewise, the version dictionary that {{{flogtool tail}}} retrieves sees a new key name. I seem to recall that there were some other places which were affected that I'd prefer were not, but I don't remember which ones right now.

This makes it difficult for external processes to correctly query Tahoe for its version string. I think that ""tahoe --version"" and the version data given to foolscap should use a fixed key (perhaps ""tahoe""), and have a value which contains the combined appname and release number: {{{tahoe: allmydata-tahoe-r5678}}} or {{{tahoe: tahoe-server-r5678}}}.
"	defect	closed	minor	undecided	packaging	1.3.0	invalid	version forward-compatibility