AMO-CHANGELOG(1)

📦 version 0.54.2, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy

✨ AMO-CHANGELOG(1) ✨

Okay bestie, this is the manual page for amo-changelog, part of the mozilla-devscripts suite 🦋 Let's get into it!

💖 NAME 💖

amo-changelog is how you fetch the Version History of an addon 📜✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

amo-changelog [options] extension

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so amo-changelog goes out and grabs the Version History of an addon from the Mozilla Extensions website. It's giving "easy way to include upstream changelogs in Debian packages of Mozilla extensions" 💅 Lowkey important, because a lot of the time the changelog isn't in the upstream source code repo, but it is on that website. 😭

The extension argument is the addon's short name, the same one the website uses. For example, the homepage for "Adblock Plus" is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/, so its short name is adblock-plus. Easy peasy 🍓

Here's an example for debian/rules (bestie, don't skip this one, it's so cute 🧚):

# if using debhelper
override_dh_installchangelogs:
    dh_installchangelogs debian/upstream/changelog.html
debian/upstream/changelog

.PHONY: get-orig-changelog
get-orig-changelog:
    amo-changelog -p rst adblock-plus

So with this setup you'd end up saving the output files debian/upstream/{changelog.html,changelog} as part of your Debian packaging. Then, whenever you update the package to a new upstream release, you just run debian/rules get-orig-changelog and you're set 💜

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -h, --help — Pulls up a brief help message. Literally the "I'm lost" button 🙈
  • -f, --html-file — The file to write to. Default: debian/upstream/changelog.html
  • -p, --plain-format — Makes a human-readable version of the changelog in the file without the .html extension, using an external program. Your options are text (uses lynx(1)), markdown (uses pandoc(1)), or rst (uses pandoc(1)). Default: none. ✨

🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

Written by Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> and Ximin Luo <infinity0@pwned.gg> 🫶

That's the whole manual, bestie! 💅 This page is for amo-changelog, from the amo-changelog source, dated December 2014. Iconic behaviour, periodt 🌈

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