Handle - as version separator in addition to +

[swsnr]

sbt-dynver recommends to use - in case + doesn't work (e.g. docker). See https://github.com/dwijnand/sbt-dynver#portable-version-strings>.

However this plugin doesn't seem to detect the previous version correctly: If I set ThisBuild / dynverSeparator := "-" then versionPolicyPreviousVersions is empty unless a previous version exists in the local Ivy repository. This makes version checks spuriously succeed on my CI (where the local repo is empty), even if I make a binary incompatible change, because mimaPreviousArtifacts remains empty.

Probably related, versionPolicyPreviousVersions finds published snapshot versions, e.g. 2.0.0-2-d7f5b21a, for its version check.

[julienrf]

Thank you for reporting.
I think this logic is handled by coursier. Maybe @alexarchambault can shed some light?

[swsnr]

To work around this issue I now leave dynverSeparator alone and instead change version for native packager only with Docker / version := version.value.replace('+', '-'). As far as I can see it works, and it's good enough for me.

I'd appreciate a short line about this in README, but otherwise we can also close this issue again 🙂