Script for updating apps [help needed]

CiberSheep

I was collecting some of the regex and code I found here to make a script to update apps from Xenial to Focal.

I've put some of this in an unfinished sh:
https://gitlab.com/cibersheep/update-apps
MR are welcome to finish the process that are missing

Warning: It is not complete, I'm sure there's a better way of doing things and it is a good moment to do the same for Noble. Here's where I need your help.

Xenial to FocalUpdate to Morph

clickable.json to yaml
- this is pretty bad, is there a better way of doing this? I mean, with the default tool in the system, without an external tool
- it will leave a dirty yaml file that need to be edited by hand
Framework update
- I think this is ok
- I'm sure I forgot something here
Update to Morph
- Probably ok
Update imports and Ubuntu qml items
- It turned out pretty well

gpatel-fr

@CiberSheep said in Script for updating apps [help needed]:

it will leave a dirty yaml file that need to be edited by hand

I tried it on this project: https://github.com/august-alt/filemanager-app
and the result of your script could be loaded by the python yaml library, so what's wrong ? is the software used less lenient than the yaml python library, or is there more complicated clickable.json files ?

CiberSheep

@gpatel-fr said in Script for updating apps [help needed]:

or is there more complicated clickable.json files ?

Thanks for asking. Yep, when the json has nested elements it would fail?
For example applying the script to this json:

}
[...]
  "kill": "qmlscene",
  "dependencies_host" : [
	"qml-module-ubuntu-onlineaccounts2"
  ]
}

will leave a yml file similar to

[...]
  "kill": "qmlscene"
  "dependencies_host":
	"qml-module-ubuntu-onlineaccounts2"

and, I think, it should end with a list

"dependencies_host":
    - "qml-module-ubuntu-onlineaccounts2"