Verified smooth migrations in two podcatchers.

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* Verify that the feeds validate.
* Subscribe to a fancy feed in some common podcatchers and verify
display details against a reference podcast.
* Verify smooth transitions for two common use cases (see testing
details below).
### Must-have (for [[schmonz]], anyway)
* Think carefully about...
* UTF-8.
* Whether [[tips/howto avoid flooding aggregators]] suffices for...
* Converting a simple podcast to a fancy one.
7. Set up a non-production copy of one of my podcasts.
* Manually test that feeds match production.
* Subscribe to the copy in `r2e`, iTunes, Downcast.
7. Try migrating the copy from simple to fancy.
* Document the steps I take.
* Make the feed readers update.
* Document what happens for each of them.
* Migrating a fancy podcast from elsewhere into ikiwiki.
* Think carefully about UTF-8.
* Verify that _all_ the tests pass (not just my new ones).
## Migration
### Upgrading within ikiwiki: from simple to fancy
#### My test podcast
For this test, I chose a podcast that tries to work around ikiwiki's
current limitations by issuing two separate `inline`s:
* One with `feedonly=yes` that includes `.mdwn`, `.pdf`, and `.mp3`
* One with `feeds=no` that includes only `.mdwn` (and makes a trail)
This has the following effects:
* Browser: sees just the articles (each of which has a manually
created link to its corresponding media file)
* Feedreader: sees all the articles and media in one flat stream
* Podcatcher: sees just the media (sans articles)
I want instead to write one `inline` with these effects:
* Browser: sees just the articles (each of which automatically links
to its enclosure)
* Feedreader: sees just the articles (each of which specifies its
enclosure)
* Podcatcher: sees just the enclosures (each of which has an enclosing
article, rendered as the media's "description")
#### Upgrade steps
7. Set up a non-production copy of the podcast.
7. Visually diff RSS and Atom feeds against production.
7. Subscribe to the copy (both feeds) in `r2e`, iTunes, Downcast.
7. Apply fancypodcast patch to the installed ikiwiki:
7. `cd ~/Documents/trees/ikiwiki && git checkout fancypodcast`
7. `git diff --no-prefix master > ~/Documents/trees/localpatches/www/ikiwiki/fancypodcast.diff`
7. `cd ~/Documents/trees/pkgsrc-current/www/ikiwiki && make deinstall && make install clean`
7. Verify that simple podcasts are unaffected:
7. Rerun `ikiwiki --setup`.
7. `diff -uB simple-before.rss simple-after.rss`
* A few new elements and attributes, as expected.
7. `diff -uB simple-before.atom simple-after.atom`
* No change.
7. Remove the feed-only `inline` and enable feeds on the remaining one.
7. Convert articles' manual download links to `\[[!meta enclosure=""]]`.
7. I want existing and future podcatchers to get my new fancy
episodes, and I know my podcast isn't in any planets, so I'm
going to skip [[tips/howto avoid flooding aggregators]].
7. Rerun `ikiwiki --setup`.
7. Verify browser shows the same stuff.
7. `diff -uB simple-after.rss fancy-after.rss # and atom`
* MP3s and PDFs are no longer naked enclosures, but belong to
articles as they should.
* Articles have updated modification times, as they should.
7. `r2e run` (both RSS and Atom)
* Nothing new with the default `trust-guid = True` (otherwise
would expect updated articles).
7. iTunes "Update Podcast" (both RSS and Atom)
* Added one episode per article, with article text as the episode
description.
* Kept old naked-enclosure episodes around.
7. Downcast refresh (RSS):
* Added one episode per article, with article text as the episode
description.
* Kept old naked-enclosure episodes around.
7. Downcast refresh (Atom):
* Added one episode per article, with no episode description
(expected, see feature table).
* Kept old naked-enclosure episodes around.
Different tradeoffs are possible. These seem okay to me.
### Importing into ikiwiki: fancy (from another CMS)
#### My test podcast
For this test, I chose a podcast currently being published with
Textpattern and tru_podcast, because I'd strongly prefer to publish
it with ikiwiki instead.
#### Upgrade steps
7. Set up a non-production copy of the podcast.
7. Visually diff RSS and Atom feeds against production.
7. Subscribe to the copy (both feeds) in `r2e`, iTunes, Downcast.
7. With a fancypodcast-enabled ikiwiki installed:
7. Copy content from Textpattern to ikiwiki:
7. Match article paths to preserve `/YYYY/MM/DD/post-title` permalinks.
7. Match enclosure paths (or redirect) to preserve Textpattern's URLs.
7. Match titles, post dates, and guids with `\[[!meta]]`.
7. Match feed paths with permanent redirects from `/atom/` to
`/index.atom` (and same for RSS).
7. `\[[!inline]]` the articles.
7. Rerun `ikiwiki --setup`.
7. Stop Textpattern, start ikiwiki.
7. Verify that podcatchers see the feeds and don't redownload anything.
7. Naively add two new blog posts, one with an enclosure.
7. Verify that podcatchers download the new enclosures.
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## Future improvements
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### Other ideas
* Don't render template text (e.g., "Use this template to insert a
note into a page") in feeds.
* Optionally specify the enclosure's:
* MIME type, in case `File::MimeInfo` guesses wrong.
* Duration, in case `ffprobe` guesses wrong.