[Backport release-24.11] matomo: refactor

[niklaskorz]

Manual backport of #374022 to make automatic backports of Matomo 5 updates possible again without introducing breaking changes to Matomo 4 users on NixOS 24.11.

Things done

• Built on platform(s)
  • x86_64-linux
  • aarch64-linux
  • x86_64-darwin
  • aarch64-darwin
• For non-Linux: Is sandboxing enabled in nix.conf? (See Nix manual)
  • sandbox = relaxed
  • sandbox = true
• Tested, as applicable:
  • NixOS test(s) (look inside nixos/tests)
  • and/or package tests
  • or, for functions and "core" functionality, tests in lib/tests or pkgs/test
  • made sure NixOS tests are linked to the relevant packages
• Tested compilation of all packages that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD". Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage
• Tested basic functionality of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
• 25.05 Release Notes (or backporting 24.11 and 25.05 Release notes)
  • (Package updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is major or breaking
  • (Module updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is significant
  • (Module addition) Added a release notes entry if adding a new NixOS module
• Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

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[niklaskorz]

nixpkgs-vet isn't happy with the workaround I use to allow both automatic backports and keep the package names of 24.11. Any suggestions? :')

[niklaskorz]

nixpkgs-vet isn't happy with the workaround I use to allow both automatic backports and keep the package names of 24.11. Any suggestions? :')

The answer was given by https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/by-name#recommendation-for-new-packages-with-multiple-versions (which suggests the inherit workaround for multi-version package scenarios).

Edit: well, that only applies to packages with version suffixes, not matomo (no suffix), it seems 🫠

[niklaskorz]

It's probably for the best to just keep backporting updates to Matomo 5 manually until the EOL of NixOS 24.11 in June.

[wolfgangwalther]

Looks like this is not going to happen, so closing.