1419916 - No redirect URL for Mobile Nightly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[me]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Build ID: 20171122103138

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to the Release Channels page for Android
2. Click "All Languages and Builds" to get the direct APK links instead of the Play Store ones.


Actual results:

The links are to the direct APK file which includes the version name (https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/mobile/nightly/latest-mozilla-central-android-api-16/fennec-59.0a1.multi.android-arm.apk for instance).


Expected results:

It should act like the Desktop downloads and Release/Beta on Mobile which have special redirect URLs (like https://download.mozilla.org/?product=fennec-beta-latest&os=android&lang=multi for Mobile Beta).

This would keep it consistent with the others and allow easier linking to the latest version without having to constantly update the version number. 

Example where this would come in handy is this unoffical F-Droid Repo which auto-pulls the latest Release and Beta APKs and makes them available for F-Droid users to auto-update without Google Play for people. Currently they can't add the Nightly APK since the URL doesn't exist for it (no "fennec-nightly-latest" or "fennec-aurora-latest").

Comment 1

[me]

Whoops forgot the link to said Repo as an example: https://gitlab.com/rfc2822/fdroid-firefox/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml

Comment 2

[Mihai Tabara [:mtabara]⌚️GMT]

I believe this bug outlived its usefulness, no activity reported in the last four years.