[Enhancement] Make input manifest combine version+qualifier like build/bundle manifest or vise versa

[peterzhuamazon]

As of now, 2.0.0 input_manifest separate the version and qualifier field.

version: 2.0.0
qualifier: alpha1

After build and assemble, the build_manifest and bundle_manifest combined this two fields into one.

version: 2.0.0-alpha1

This is not only confusing but also causing a lot of hard coding.

For example, rpm does not support - as stated in this issue comment. In order to separate version and qualifier with . instead of -, we want to directly call build.version and build.qualifier, but now we have to do version.replace('-', '.') which is not clean and is assuming the incoming version=2.0.0-alpha1.

I would like a consistent solution here, either separate the field for all or combine the field for all.

Thanks.

[dblock]

This would require changing how OpenSearch and plug-in gradle builds receive the build qualifier (remove support for it, include the qualifier as part of the version). It’s a good idea, but a lot of work.

[peterzhuamazon]

Close this for now as nearly all the workflow is specifically coding differently for INPUT vs BUILD/BUNDLE manifest.s