YYYYMMDD Package Versioning

[beltmr]

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Hi, I'm trying to configure Renovate to detect updates for a dependency that uses a yyyymmdd version format. I'm using the dependency wpackagist-plugin/ga-google-analytics, however, Renovate doesn't seem to detect updates for this. I believe this is due to the special versioning they use, which is in yyyymmdd format. I tried specifying loose versioning for that package in the renovate.json file (see below), but it still doesn't detect updates.

"packageRules": [
{
"matchPackageNames": ["wpackagist-plugin/ga-google-analytics"],
"versioning": "loose"
}
]

Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

Logs (if relevant)

Logs

DEBUG: packageFiles with updates
{
  "baseBranch": "main"
  "config": {
    "composer": [
      {
        "deps": [
          {
            "depType": "require",
            "depName": "wpackagist-plugin/ga-google-analytics",
            "currentValue": "20241102",
            "datasource": "packagist",
            "registryUrls": [
              "https://wpackagist.org",
              "https://packagist.org"
            ],
            "updates": [],
            "packageName": "wpackagist-plugin/ga-google-analytics",
            "versioning": "loose",
            "warnings": [],
            "sourceUrl": "https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/ga-google-analytics/",
            "registryUrl": "https://wpackagist.org",
            "homepage": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/ga-google-analytics/"
          }
        ],
        "managerData": {
          "composerJsonType": "project"
        },
        "extractedConstraints": {
          "php": "8.2"
        },
        "packageFile": "composer.json"
      }
    ]
  }
}

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[rarkins]

If the versioning was rejecting this format, you'd see skipReason=invalid-value or something like that. As that's not happening, we'd need a reproduction repo in order to debug it

[beltmr]

Not sure if this helps, but this was also in the logs:

INFO: Found no results from datasource that look like a version
{
"dependency": "wpackagist-plugin/ga-google-analytics"
"result": {
"releases": [],
"homepage": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/ga-google-analytics/",
"sourceUrl": "https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/ga-google-analytics/",
"registryUrl": "https://wpackagist.org"
}
}

[rarkins]

It means that none of the versions returned for that package are numeric. Do they have some type of prefix?

[beltmr]

No prefix. Just YYYYMMDD, ie. 20241019

[rarkins]

Please create a reproduction then so we can test

[beltmr]

I have. It's in the comment below. Also here - https://github.com/beltmr/35735

[beltmr]

Here is the minimal reproduction link: https://github.com/beltmr/35735