FDroid version update

[homlett]

Kiwix for Android sounds great, but it should to be updated.

[kelson42]

@homlett Why not asking the FDroid team?

[mhutti1]

@kelson42 I think he is asking why fdroid version is 1.97 but google play version is 1.99

[kelson42]

@mhutti1 I don't know. The question should be asked to the FDroid team. I have tried to ping them a little bit without success. Now, the best is to release 2.0 and then ask again I think.

[mhutti1]

@kelson42 Ok I might look into it a bit after 2.0 release.

[kelson42]

The problem is that they have a strange Python problem. They told me they will retry but no news. I have asked again today someone of the Fdroid team.

[kelson42]

@rashiq Could you please have a special look to this ticket as you know personnaly mvdan and are familliar with both Android an Python?

[rashiq]

@kelson42 will do! I only noticed a few days ago that the kiwix version on fdroid is very outdated

[kelson42]

@rashiq Thx very much. Yes, because (what looks like to be) a silly Python bug/problem, FDroid is behind our release mgmt of more than 6 months.

[mvdan]

@rashiq did indeed stalk me in real life, so I'm having a look at the moment.

To provide some context, Kiwix is one of the more complex builds on the main repo so it makes sense that it would easily fall behind unless someone actively works on updates.

[mvdan]

This took a while, but got a build working. Pushed https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/commit/6e10f23954ed608ccf6a1cbad5741886dfdaa21b.

[rashiq]

Thanks again @mvdan :)

[kelson42]

@mvdan @rashiq Thank you very much for the good work. @mgautierfr is currently working to revamp compilation scripts for the whole project (Android included). Things should be over next week for Android. It should make the maintenance work on FDroid side easier. I least we hope so... let see for the next releases :)

[mvdan]

This is really weird - the build worked locally, but we're hitting the same utf8 error on the buildserver: https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/org.kiwix.kiwixmobile/lastbuild_45

I've filed a very probable fix for this in our python codebase: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver/merge_requests/224

When I first encountered this crash, I think my understanding of encodings in Python just wasn't good enough to figure out a proper fix. This still isn't perfect - it will ignore the bytes - but it's certainly better than a crash.

Will update this issue if there are any news.

[mvdan]

There happens to be a huge backlog of apps with failing builds, so this is taking longer than usual. Still waiting on a build with the updated python code.

[mvdan]

Finally succeeded: https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/org.kiwix.kiwixmobile/lastbuild_45

The index update will happen in a few hours - then it will be visible on https://f-droid.org/app/org.kiwix.kiwixmobile

[rashiq]

Awesome! Thanks :)

Daniel Martí notifications@github.com schrieb am Do., 16. März 2017, 12:19:

Finally succeeded: https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/org.kiwix.kiwixmobile/lastbuild_45

The index update will happen in a few hours - then it will be visible on https://f-droid.org/app/org.kiwix.kiwixmobile

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[kelson42]

@mvdan I just saw this morning that Kiwix has been updated on my Fdroid! Yohoo! Then I remarked... that this is not the last version: this is version 2.1 and we have released 2.2 a few weeks ago. Not sure the reason why, maybe because we did not had tagged the git for Kiwix git repo correctly. Anyway, I have done this now https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix/releases/tag/android_v2.20... and may you please try to update to 2.2?

[mhutti1]

This issue was moved to kiwix/kiwix-android#61