jq 1.8.x

[volphy]

Current Amazon Linux 2023 release provides jq 1.7.1:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/release-notes/all-packages-AL2023.8.html

This jq release works very well but it has a pesky bug:

$ jq --version
jq-

This flag is useful in various CICD scenarios.

There are several open issues in GitHub e.g.,
#3343

Anyway, in jq 1.8.x the above-mentioned issue is fixed (MacOS):
$ jq --version
jq-1.8.1

I know that jq 1.8.0 contains some backwards-incompatible changes:
https://github.com/jqlang/jq/releases/tag/jq-1.8.0

Is it possible that jq be upgraded to 1.8.x in Amazon Linux 2023?

[wader]

Hi, same as for #3343 i think you have to bring this issue up with the maintainers of the distro and it could also be that they are building the package wrongly if the version is missing.

[volphy]

I think it is a general jq 1.7.x issue.

IIRC the same error occurred in jq package built by HomeBrew for MacOS (Mac Silicon).

However, it is true that I cannot find generic issue here:
https://github.com/jqlang/jq/issues

[wader]

Ok, there has been some cases of jq distributions running autoreconf etc even they using as source distribution tar.gz etc which messed up the version number. Could you try find the scripts etc used to build and package linux for amazon linux? but either way i don't think we will do a new release to fix this, not sure what we would fix?

[volphy]

Ah, sorry. I started discussion in incorrect GitHub repository. Closing.