If you specify which statements were imprecise, I will gladly enhance them.
I think I managed to replicate what you did, see rpm/harbour-whisperfish.spec · master · Whisperfish / Whisperfish - Signal on Sailfish OS · GitLab,
This is a really elegant and sophisticated implementation of this versioning scheme for compiled software.
Cool!
but it only correctly installs on SailfishOS 4.x now.
Oh,
a. everything you did and the results achieved look correct.
b. but I remembered having issues with this, which are documented in Storemans’s issue #108: Initially, all was fine, but after almost a year I occasionally had similar issues.
Storeman’s solution ultimately was to switch to SailfishOS:Chum:
- Announcement: Announcing sailfishos:chum
- Repository: Show sailfishos:chum - SailfishOS Open Build Service
- Documentation & issue tracker: https://github.com/sailfishos-chum/main