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find-appimage: a release's channel comes from its tag and AppImage names only; log the release choice #9636

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find-appimage: list the newest releases and the chosen one in the log
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12 changes: 9 additions & 3 deletions code/find-appimage.sh
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# releases of their own (Firefox-Appimage: releases "stable", "beta", "esr",
# "nightly"). An entry asks for one with "#Channel" at the end of the URL in its
# data/ file, independent of its name (https://github.com/o/r#ESR): then only the
# releases (or, within a release, the AppImages) whose tag or file name has that
# releases (or, within a release, the AppImages) whose tag or AppImage file name has that
# word are considered, and it is an error if there are none. An entry without a
# channel does not get the releases or AppImages of the other well-known channels
# (esr, nightly, beta, devedition, ...), if there are others. So that the entries
# (esr, nightly, beta, devedition, ...), if there are others. Other files of a
# release (a latest-beta.json update feed) say nothing about its channel. So that the entries
# of such a repository each get their own AppImage and none of them collide.
#
# Rules:
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# or the newest pre-release if there is no release or if it is more than
# 180 days newer than the newest release. Prints "index<TAB>why".
PICK=$(jq -r --arg ch "$CH_RE" --arg all "$ALL_RE" '
def mentions($re): ((.tag_name // "") | test($re; "i")) or ([.assets[]?.name] | map(test($re; "i")) | any);
def mentions($re): ((.tag_name // "") | test($re; "i")) or ([.assets[]?.name | select(test("\\.appimage$"; "i"))] | map(test($re; "i")) | any);
def secs: (.published_at // .created_at // "") | .[0:19]
| if test("^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}T[0-9:]{8}$") then (. + "Z" | fromdateiso8601) else null end;
[to_entries[] | select(.value.draft | not)
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exit 1
fi
TAG=$(jq -r ".[$RELEASE].tag_name" "$JSON")
# Which releases were looked at, for the log: the newest ones, as the API listed
# them, with what decides (draft, pre-release, AppImages) and the chosen one marked
echo "Releases in the order of the API (* = the one chosen):"
jq -r --argjson pick "$RELEASE" '
to_entries[:8][] | " \(if .key == $pick then "*" else " " end) \(.value.tag_name // "?") \(if .value.draft then "draft" elif .value.prerelease then "pre-release" else "release" end) \((.value.published_at // .value.created_at // "no date") | .[0:10]) \([.value.assets[]?.name | select(test("\\.appimage$"; "i"))] | length) AppImage(s)"' "$JSON" 2>/dev/null
case "$(cut -f 2 <<<"$PICK")" in
none) echo "NOTE: Using pre-release $TAG, as no release has an AppImage" ;;
stale) echo "NOTE: Using pre-release $TAG, as the newest release with an AppImage, $(jq -r ".[$(cut -f 3 <<<"$PICK")].tag_name" "$JSON"), is more than 180 days older" ;;
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