I just wanted to test the unstable version (installed version now ist v.0.24.6) on my debian test system.
But simply installing the unstable deb package isn’t really possible:
# dpkg -i vikunja-unstable-amd64.deb
dpkg: error processing archive vikunja-unstable-amd64.deb (--install):
parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' near line 2 package 'vikunja':
'Version' field value 'unstable': version number does not start with digit
Errors were encountered while processing:
vikunja-unstable-amd64.deb
So I think the version for the unstable build shouldn’t only be unstable but {upcoming_version}~pre{prerelease_version} - so right now e.g. 0.25~pre1-1, 0.25~pre1-2, …
or using the nightly versioning {upcoming_version}~git{date}.{hash}-{revision} it could be e.g. 0.25~git20250217.67bcdb-1
Syntax:
upcoming_version: The upcoming release version
date: Timestamp in YYYYMMDD format.
hash: 7 characters of git commit hash used for the build (informational purpose).
revision: An internal revision number for that nightly build.
That’s what it should look like (if you run vikunja version on an unstable build, you should see that) - it’s just that the build process seems to mangle the metadata on this.
# dpkg-deb -I vikunja-unstable-amd64.deb
neues Debian-Paket, Version 2.0.
Größe 33377078 Byte: control-Archiv= 755 Byte.
24 Byte, 1 Zeilen conffiles
380 Byte, 11 Zeilen control
190 Byte, 3 Zeilen md5sums
393 Byte, 9 Zeilen * postinst #!/bin/bash
Package: vikunja
Version: main
Section: default
Priority: extra
Architecture: amd64
License: AGPLv3
Maintainer: Vikunja Maintainers <maintainers@vikunja.io>
Installed-Size: 40374
Depends: systemd
Homepage: https://vikunja.io
Description: Vikunja is an open-source todo application, written in Go. It lets you create lists,tasks and share them via teams or directly between users.
new Debian package, version 2.0.
size 33391576 bytes: control archive=753 bytes.
24 bytes, 1 lines conffiles
380 bytes, 11 lines control
190 bytes, 3 lines md5sums
393 bytes, 9 lines * postinst #!/bin/bash
Package: vikunja
Version: main
Section: default
Priority: extra
Architecture: amd64
License: AGPLv3
Maintainer: Vikunja Maintainers <maintainers@vikunja.io>
Installed-Size: 40390
Depends: systemd
Homepage: https://vikunja.io
Description: Vikunja is an open-source todo application, written in Go. It lets you create lists,tasks and share them via teams or directly between users.
>vikunja version
Vikunja api version main
Built with go1.23.7
(I fored the installation with --force-bad-version)
It seems like you were using an old deb package. The correct one is called vikunja-unstable-x86_64.deb in the download server. I’ve removed the other one.
Looking better now but unstable version is now 0.24.1~974-2a090123 - shouldn’t the version number from the unstable be > the current stable v0.24.6
~# dpkg-deb -I vikunja-unstable-x86_64.deb
neues Debian-Paket, Version 2.0.
Größe 34709450 Byte: control-Archiv= 769 Byte.
24 Byte, 1 Zeilen conffiles
395 Byte, 11 Zeilen control
190 Byte, 3 Zeilen md5sums
393 Byte, 9 Zeilen * postinst #!/bin/bash
Package: vikunja
Version: 0.24.1~974-2a090123
Section: default
Priority: extra
Architecture: amd64
License: AGPLv3
Maintainer: Vikunja Maintainers <maintainers@vikunja.io>
Installed-Size: 43090
Depends: systemd
Homepage: https://vikunja.io
Description: Vikunja is an open-source todo application, written in Go. It lets you create lists,tasks and share them via teams or directly between users.
~# dpkg --install vikunja-unstable-x86_64.deb
dpkg: Warnung: Version 0.24.6 des Paketes vikunja wird durch ältere Version 0.24.1~974-2a090123 ersetzt
(Lese Datenbank ... 105300 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
Vorbereitung zum Entpacken von vikunja-unstable-x86_64.deb ...
Entpacken von vikunja (0.24.1~974-2a090123) über (0.24.6) ...
vikunja (0.24.1~974-2a090123) wird eingerichtet ...
...
It is, the release versions just contain backported changes and thus have a different version number. The unstable version can be read as “based off 0.24.1, containing 974 commits since then and the commit it was built from is 2a090123”.
