Support elixir's OTP versioning scheme

[jprinaldi]

Tell us more.

I install elixir versions using asdf. Currently, the latest elixir version is 1.16.2. However, that version is built against OTP 24, even though there are versions that also support OTP 25 and OTP 26.

Because of this, I installed 1.16.2-otp-26, to make sure the latest OTP features are supported. However, after doing that, Renovate opened a PR suggesting "updating" that version back to 1.16.2, which is a definite downgrade.

It would be very useful if Renovate supported this versioning scheme.

References:
https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-elixir?tab=readme-ov-file#elixir-precompiled-versions
https://github.com/hexpm/bob/blob/main/README.md#elixir-builds

[rarkins]

Set versioning=docker for this package

[jprinaldi]

Thanks. It seems to me like this would be the behavior most people would expect in this situation. What's the reason behind Renovate not behaving like this by default?

[rarkins]

Asdf rules are mostly community contributed, you're welcome to submit a change