[Bug 45317] updating wine mono does not change version in uninstaller.exe

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45317

--- Comment #15 from Hans Leidekker <hans at meelstraat.net> ---
(In reply to Piotr Caban from comment #9)
> I've done much more testing and I think that the correct way is to do a
> "major upgrade" on every mono update. I think so because of the way how
> update needs to be installed by the user:
>  - major upgrade - it's enough to click on the msi file to install the
> update, depending on msi file content old version will be preserved or
> removed
>  - minor upgrade - has identical user deployment methods as small update
>  - small update - needs to be installed as patch or complete reinstall, if
> you decide to do the minor upgrade new mono versions will need to be
> installed in following way:
> msiexec /I wine-mono-4.7.2.msi REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus

Most users don't handle these updates directly. I don't think it's too much to
ask users who want to test an update to type a few extra characters.  We could
add an exe wrapper if we really needed a single click installer.

> There are also many restrictions regarding what can be done in small and
> minor upgrade, I don't think you want to pay attention to that on every
> release.

Don't know about 'many', but you can't modify the feature tree. This hasn't
been an issue so far, wine-mono has had a single feature from the beginning.
Note that you can still add features and components.

A major upgrade defines a new product, which means that the old product will be
removed first. So even if there's a small number of files that have changed (a
typical update), all of them will be deleted and rewritten.

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