github: Use API to properly tag prereleases

[jvanbruegge]

r-ryantm keeps opening pull requests for a github package where the latest release is a prerelease
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+audible-cli

The reason is that nix-updated uses the RSS feed to get the releases which does not distinguish between a release and a prerelease. Using the github API fixes that.

[jvanbruegge]

@Mic92 I've added the atom feed as a fallback now and also added support for GITHUB_TOKEN

[jvanbruegge]

The test failure is from pnpm and it also happens on master, so is unrelated to this PR

[Mic92]

@mergify queue

[mergify]

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✅ The pull request has been merged automatically

The pull request has been merged automatically at 2c1937e

[jvanbruegge]

Could you cut a new release? I'd really like to get rid of the r-ryantm spam

[Mic92]

Release is out.

[Mic92]

There is one issue with this. Some projects don't have github releases i.e. https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/

On the other hand tags work: https://api.github.com/repos/mongodb/mongo/tags?per_page=1000

[SebTM]

There is one issue with this. Some projects don't have github releases i.e. https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/

Yes, ran into this issue for protonvpn-gui and dependencies today:

https://api.github.com/repos/ProtonVPN/proton-vpn-gtk-app/releases

does not contain the tags but the old atom-feed did. Can we have a switch for the new behavior and keep the old default for now?

[jvanbruegge]

I can add a second fallback in case list of releases is empty. I think that is a better approach

[jvanbruegge]

@Mic92 @SebTM see #269

[lilyinstarlight]

This breaks so many packages that have used GitHub releases in the past but only push tags these days. The audible-cli package should be changed to use --version-regex to fix its issue (as is already done in nixpkgs packages with this issue, such as aws-sam-cli) and this be reverted in nix-update rather than breaking updates for a lot of packages

[lf-]

#221 related pr, closed because it would have been a regression

[jian-lin]

I can add a second fallback in case list of releases is empty.

I think this is not enough. Some packages, such as lspce, have a non-empty release list but there are newer tags which are not included in the release list.

[lilyinstarlight]

Partial revert in #274