Feature request: consider replacing `use-tag` in `GitHubMonitor` updater with a more descriptive option
stormqueen1990 opened this issue · 0 comments
Currently, the GitHubMonitor
updater in Melange contains an option called use-tag
to indicate whether a project should pull tags instead of releases for an update, with releases being the default route when use-tag
is not specified or is set to false
:
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However, this context is difficult to get from just looking at a Melange manifest. There have been various instances of packages added into wolfi-dev/os with the use-tag
flag set to true
for projects that use releases, which results in the updater creating pull requests to bump packages to unreleased versions. One such example is wolfi-dev/os#19779.
Some examples of packages that are currently in this state include q
, jellyfin
, and ImageMagick
, to cite a few.
With that in mind, I would like to suggest that use-tag
gets marked as deprecated, with a new field being added to replace it. This new field could be called version-source
, or something similar, with valid values being Release
or Tag
, which would give more context around the usage of the option.