[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#762310: Bug#762310: amo-changelog currently, pointless

[Adrian Aichner]

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This URL syntax works to get page 2:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/saved-password-editor/versions/?page=2&format:rss

(meta: I was not able to use the reply mailto: of the bug due to a URL 
encoding error.
é should be encoded as %C3%A9 not %E9.
even with that fixed the mailto: link, as used in Firefox nightly, did 
not produce a reply mail.
Therefor I send this manually with the references and in-reply-to field 
shown at top)


On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 13:57:40 +0100 Ximin Luo <infinity0 at pwned.gg> wrote:
 > On 21/09/14 02:12, David Prévot wrote:
 > > As can be seen in /usr/share/doc/xul-ext-password-editor/changelog.gz,
 > > the output is terrible: lists are not honored, and limited to the first
 > > page available on the website.
 > >
 >
 > How do you suggest lists to be "honoured"
  One way could be to put it through pandoc or something, which IIRC can 
convent simple HTML to markdown or rst. However I'm not sure how complex 
AMO changelogs can get, if pandoc supports everything, and how good it 
might look in all cases. It would also add a non-trivial dependency to 
this package. So that's why I chose to leave it as it is.
 >
 > The two-pages thing is going to be a bit awkward to solve. We use the 
rss format, because it's easy to parse and less likely to change 
structure (compared to the html format), but I can't figure out how to 
get AMO to give us page 2 in this format.
 >
 > For example, the source of 
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/saved-password-editor/versions/
page=2 says
 >
 >     <link  rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"
 >        title="RSS" 
href="/en-US/firefox/addon/saved-password-editor/versions/
page=2format:rss">
 >
 > But this URL doesn't work and seems like an oversight on part of the 
original web developer.
 >
 > I also tried 
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/saved-password-editor/versions/format:rss
page=2 but this just gives me page 1.
 >
 > > Furthermore, the manpage advises to use debian/changelog.upstream, 
maybe
 > > using the already documented (in uscan(1) and DEP-12) debian/upstream
 > > directory would be interesting, and installing 
debian/upstream/changelog
 > > without the need of writing an override_dh_installchangelogs target
 > > would be worth it (feel free to upstream this last request directly 
into
 > > debhelper if it makes sense).
 > >
 >
 > This could be interesting, yes. We should add this to DEP-12 though.
 >
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 >