An APK no longer ships without a word about what changed in it #97

2026-09-05T15:38:40Z

paulhitt commented

2026-09-05 15:38:40 +00:00

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Publishing was three steps done by hand and only two left a trace. The gate goes on the manifest — the step that cannot be skipped, because it is what the in-app updater reads. It matches the versionName read out of the APK against the /releases changelog in the relay repository, which is also where the checker lives so the schema has one home.

Proven on a real APK in all four states: covered, uncovered (stdout stays empty — no half-written manifest), FN_SKIP_RELEASE_NOTES=1, and no relay checkout. All gate output is on stderr; this script's stdout is the manifest.

Needs flamenet-relay!62, which adds Scripts/covers-android.py and the per-platform versions it matches on.

Publishing was three steps done by hand and only two left a trace. The gate goes on the manifest — the step that cannot be skipped, because it is what the in-app updater reads. It matches the versionName read out of the APK against the /releases changelog in the relay repository, which is also where the checker lives so the schema has one home. Proven on a real APK in all four states: covered, uncovered (stdout stays empty — no half-written manifest), FN_SKIP_RELEASE_NOTES=1, and no relay checkout. All gate output is on stderr; this script's stdout is the manifest. Needs flamenet-relay!62, which adds Scripts/covers-android.py and the per-platform versions it matches on.

paulhitt commented

2026-09-05 15:56:55 +00:00

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mentioned in commit 155168a244

mentioned in commit 155168a244d147b046d77591d4461cd64b87c416

paulhitt (Migrated from gitlab.com) merged commit 155168a244 into main

2026-09-05 15:56:55 +00:00

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Reference: extant2000/flamenet-messenger-android#97