about:debugging page indicates that the About Sync extension has an invalid version number

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Start by locating the About Sync extension manifest and the source of its published version, then compare that value with Firefox's version-format requirements. Update the versioning metadata so the about:debugging entry no longer reports a warning, and verify by installing the add-on and checking its Extensions entry.

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Description

STR:

  1. Install the About Sync add-on from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/about-sync/
  2. Visit about:debugging and scroll down to the entry for About Sync (under "Extensions")

ACTUAL RESULTS:
There's a warning box -- if you expand it, it shows the following:

Warning details

Reading manifest: Warning processing version: version must be a version string consisting of at most 4 integers of at most 9 digits without leading zeros, and separated with dots

Here's a screenshot:
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EXPECTED RESULTS:
No such warning (i.e. we probably need a conforming version numbering scheme).

If you look at the Version field on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/about-sync/ , you can see that indeed our version number does not conform to this "at most 4 integers of at most 9 digits without leading zeros, and separated with dots" scheme -- we have right now:

Version
    0.21.0buildid20220714.054802
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