fastlane full_description.txt doesn't show anchor link
- F-Droid version (in the About screen): 1.23
What did you do? (clear steps if possible)
An application has a Fastlane full_description.txt that contains anchor link <a href="https://example.com/">link text</a>.
What did you expect to see?
The link is shown in the F-Droid app description and on the web.
What did you see instead?
This description contains both a bare link and an html one: https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-android/blob/master/fastlane/metadata/android/de/full_description.txt
The bare link is a hyperlink in the F-droid app, but not on the F-droid web page: https://f-droid.org/de/packages/com.limelight/ The html link is not a hyperlink in the F-droid app, but it is on the F-droid web page.
This description contains only an html one: https://github.com/you-apps/TranslateYou/blob/master/fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/full_description.txt
is not a hyperlink in the F-droid app, but it is on the F-droid web page: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.bnyro.translate/
I used F-Droid basic to test and I could not find html links that were not in the first row of the description that is shown bold in the app and possibly therefore treated differently.
In any case it seems to me that the bare link is preferable, as at least the url is shown everywhere (worst case not turned to a link)
There is docs on the allowed formatting https://f-droid.org/en/docs/All_About_Descriptions_Graphics_and_Screenshots/#html-descriptions
a with href is currently allowed, but might be removed without notice.
Sounds weird but this may probably related to the PlayStore policies that the F-Droid tries to follow.
I checked how it works. I found the the FairEmail has an anchor link at end of the full_description.txt https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/metadata/en-US/full_description.txt#L91 Note that the anchor href and text are the same.
The F-Droid web shows it https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.faircode.email/ The F-Droid app shows it. The PlayStore web shows the href but not makes it as a link. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.faircode.email The PlayStore app shows the link.
The more important is the app support but it looks like it's not reliable.
In the anchors aren't supported then we should remove them from documentation.
It looks like the PlayStore doesn't support the anchors at all https://stackoverflow.com/a/18746972
A fully-formatted URL such as http://google.com; this appears as a hyperlink. (Beware that trying to use an HTML tag for a custom description does not work and breaks the formatting.)