Upstreams that ship several channels in parallel put the channel first:
LiteLLM publishes 'main-v1.77.7-stable' next to 'main-v1.77.7-nightly',
Jitsi ships 'stable-9646'. The grammar only allowed a leading 'v', so both
shapes parsed as nothing at all, sat at depth 0 next to 'latest', and the
bump job never looked at them.
The numeric core now takes an optional leading channel, and the channel
folds into the flavor the same way the patch letter already does.
Everything that is not the number is family; only the number is order. That
is what keeps '-stable' away from '-nightly' and 'stable-9646' away from a
bare '9646', which would leave the channel and change what the role
deploys.
The change is additive. Only a tag starting with letters followed by a dash
can match the new group, and every such tag failed the grammar outright
before, so no tag that parses today parses differently. The regression case
pins the four shapes that already worked, and the new cases pin the two
directions that must not happen along with the tags that must stay refused:
'act-latest', 'bookworm-slim', 'main-latest' and 'buildx-stable-1' carry a
channel but no version.
Two pins in this repository become orderable as a result: the four Jitsi
components and the LiteLLM gateway.
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Two tag shapes in this repository name a fixed release yet failed the
semver gate, so the bump job skipped them and nothing could tell whether a
newer one existed: the Checkmk counter '2.4.0p32' and the Collabora
five-component '26.04.2.1.1'. Both returned depth 0 and fell into the
unorderable residue next to 'latest' and 'alpine'.
The numeric core now takes up to five components, and a counter written as
a letter plus a number is parsed into its own group. The letter joins the
flavor and the number joins the ordering key, which is what keeps
'2.4.0p32' in a different family from the four-component '2.4.0.32': a
bump between them would silently change what the role deploys. The number
in the key also makes p9 order below p10 instead of above it.
version_flavor reads the parse result positionally, so the wider tuple
leaves it untouched. Its contract does change for counter tags, which now
report the letter as their flavor; every shape the grammar already handled
keeps its classification, pinned by a regression case in the new test.
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