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F-Droid - Overview
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https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.b44t.messenger/ is the Delta Chat page on F-Droid.org, the F-Droid-app will show similar information.
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https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/blob/master/metadata/com.b44t.messenger.yml contains the description and all meta data shown for Delta Chat on F-Droid; you can also check if F-Droid recognizes a new version here (they show up at the end)
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new versions are recognized by tags in the form
v1.2.3- before adding tags like that, have a look atdocs/release-checklist.mdthe build and distribution is expected to take up to 5 days.
F-Droid Build status
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https://monitor.f-droid.org/builds shows F-Droid's overall build status, if Delta Chat shows up at "Need updating" or "Running", things are working as expected :)
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https://f-droid.org/repo/com.b44t.messenger_VERSIONCODE.apk
(with VERSIONCODE = 537 or so) links to successfully built apk even if it is not yet in the index (which may take some more time). F-Droid keeps the last 3 successful builds in the main repo, while the rest will be moved to the Archive repo: https://f-droid.org/archive/com.b44t.messenger_VERSIONCODE.apk
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
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the description can be changed via a PR to the file above
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make sure there is a "newline" at the end of the description (see https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/merge_requests/3580)
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reformat the metadata using
$ ../fdroidserver/fdroid rewritemeta com.b44t.messenger # called from fdroiddata dir