Subject: Re: bug#47217: generic-html updater does not work with sqlite package

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 23:25:44 -0500

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> Léo Le Bouter <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> +   (properties
>> +    `((release-monitoring-url . "https://sqlite.org/download.html")))
>
> Unfortunately this page uses JavaScript.  Without JS, you get:
>
>   <a id='a2' href='hp1.html'>sqlite-autoconf-3350200.tar.gz</a><br>(2.82 MiB)</td>
>
> We’d need to find a web page that directly links to the tarball, but I
> can’t seem to find such a page.

Since the SQLite website doesn't seem amenable to discover new releases,
perhaps we could switch the source to Git and let our git updater do its
magic?

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Thanks,
Maxim