arcanechat-android/docs/f-droid.md

F-Droid - Overview

• https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/blob/master/metadata/com.b44t.messenger.txt 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

Use F-Droid-tools locally

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

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