Re: Signed Extensions

Why would we update the maxVersion or anything else? We're signing the
archive, not modifying it any more than necessary. If the existing
maxVersion works then it will still work; if the existing maxVersion
doesn't work then the author should already have plans to update it and it
will get re-signed when that happens.

I don't understand your comment about the filenames. None of the add-ons I
have installed have versions as part of the name. How many people are
actually reaching into our CDN and using the internal filename? In any case
the signed/not-signed versions were not intended to be different in any
meaningful way and only have a different version as a hack to trigger an
update. You'd have better luck reaching the AMO developers in an
addons-related forum rather than here. I'm guessing the damage is done and
it's not worth re-generating all the signed files to fix it at this point,
and for future add-on updates it won't be an issue since there will only
ever be the signed version.

-Dan Veditz