[MNG-5568] ComparableVersion's breaks contract for Comparable, in some edgecases the comparisons are not transitive

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.5
• Fix Version/s: 3.2.5
• Component/s: Artifacts and Repositories
• Assignee: Herve Boutemy
• Reporter: Milos Kleint
• Created: 24/Jan/14 01:05
• Updated: 28/Feb/23 15:46
• Resolved: 30/Nov/14 16:27

Description

if ComparableVersion A > B and B > C, then it's required that A > C. In the attached test patch, I'm demonstrating a case where it's failing. Please note that the situation is not that rare, please see issues https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226100 and https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240845 at netbeans.org and https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPIR-247

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: MPIR-247 "Comparison method violates its general contract!" while generating site
• is related to: MNG-6568 ComparableVersion breaks Comparable contract for some triples
• is related to: MNG-5730 Provide a tool to test Maven version parsing and comparison
• relates to: MRESOLVER-334 Maven Resolver's GenericVersionScheme diverges from the spec
• relates to: MNG-3010 Problem parsing version ranges