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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2021-03-13 22:25:12 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2021-03-17 12:03:24 +0100
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gnu-maintenance: Add 'generic-html' updater.
This brings total updater coverage, as reported by 'guix refresh
--list-updaters', from 78% to 88.3%.  Among many other things, it covers
freedesktop.org packages.

* guix/gnu-maintenance.scm (html-updatable-package?)
(latest-html-updatable-release): New procedures.
(%generic-html-updater): New variable.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix refresh): Document it.
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@@ -11707,6 +11707,9 @@ the updater for @uref{https://www.stackage.org, Stackage} packages.
 the updater for @uref{https://crates.io, Crates} packages.
 @item launchpad
 the updater for @uref{https://launchpad.net, Launchpad} packages.
+@item generic-html
+a generic updater that crawls the HTML page where the source tarball of
+the package is hosted, when applicable.
 @end table
 
 For instance, the following command only checks for updates of Emacs