deltachat/docs/f-droid.md
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F-Droid - Overview

  • https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/blob/master/metadata/com.b44t.messenger.yml contains the descripion and all meta data shown for Delta Chat on F-Droid

  • when a new tag in the form v1.2.3 is added to the deltachat-android repo, F-Droid will pick up this version and distribute it - this may take some days or even weeks.
    before creating a new version, please have a look at docs/release-checklist.md

F-Droid Build status

Use F-Droid-tools locally

$ git clone https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata
$ git clone https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver
$ cd fdroiddata

now, metadata/com.b44t.messenger.txt can be modified. for testing, one can change the repo to a branch by adding the line Update Check Mode:RepoManifest/BRANCH to the file.

set some path to ndk etc:
$ cp ../fdroidserver/examples/config.py . # adapt file as needed

checkout repo as f-droid would do:
$ ../fdroidserver/fdroid checkupdates -v com.b44t.messenger
(for testing with uncommited changes, add --allow-dirty)

build repo as f-droid would do:
$ ../froidserver/fdroid build -v com.b44t.messenger:

(via https://f-droid.org/docs/Installing_the_Server_and_Repo_Tools/ and https://f-droid.org/docs/Building_Applications/ - might require pip install pyasn1 pyasn1_modules pyaml requests)

Changing the Description on F-Droid

  • the description can be changed via a PR to the file above

  • make sure there is a "newline" at the end of the description (see https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/merge_requests/3580)

  • reformat the metadata using
    $ ../fdroidserver/fdroid rewritemeta com.b44t.messenger # called from fdroiddata dir