Initially reported in #1802344: Drush up notifies of -dev version update but then installs older stable release, but moved to separate issue after recommendation by greg.1.anderson.

An example showing the problem:

$ drush make-generate > ../test.make
$ grep dev ../test.make
projects[coffee][version] = "2.x-dev"
projects[views_send][version] = "1.0-alpha1+6-dev"
$ cd ../somedir
$ drush make ../test.make
Make new site in the current directory? (y/n): y
Could not locate views_send version 7.x-1.0-alpha1+6-dev, will try to download latest recommended or supported release.
[...]

The problem IMHO is that make doesn't recognize the new dev version numbers, as 7.x-1.0-alpha1+6-dev above, and installs the latest stable version in stead of the dev version. (Notice that a dev version without a stable release, like coffee above, works like expected.)

PS! The test above was done with Drush from the 8.x-6.x branch as of today.

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#1 drush-make-dev-1859706-1.patch950 byteshansfn
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hansfn’s picture

hansfn CreditAttribution: hansfn commented
Version: » 8.x-6.x-dev
Status: Active » Needs review
FileSize
drush-make-dev-1859706-1.patch950 bytes

First attempt at a patch is attached. It does the job, and, only modules which has the new dev version info style is affected by the change.

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hansfn CreditAttribution: hansfn commented

Just a quick note. The perfect solution is of course to use the git_drupalorg package manager to get the old (no longer available as a zip/tar.gz file) dev version. However, this should be configurable since not all people have git or want to use git.

Is the perfect solution necessary or is my simple patch enough?

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kristiaanvandeneynde
Primary language Dutch
Location Antwerp, Belgium
CreditAttribution: kristiaanvandeneynde commented

I'm running into the same problem.

Falling back to git and checking out a certain commit for the time being.

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Component: Make » PM (dl, en, up ...)
Assigned: Unassigned » jonhattan
Status: Needs review » Needs work

Shouldn't this be improved for pm-download as well?

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would be good if someone extended this to pm-download.

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Status: Needs work » Closed (won't fix)
Issue tags: +Needs migration

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