Use `git clone` instead of submodule to pull uAssets dependencies

Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/2358

We need two different branches of uAssets to properly add the
default filter lists into the packages. I couldn't figure out
how to do this with submodules, using simple `git clone` as a
dependency just work.

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:
           persist-credentials: false
       - name: Clone uAssets
         run: |
-          git submodule update --depth 1 --init
+          tools/pull-assets.sh
       # https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Shell-Parameter-Expansion.html
       - name: Get release information
         id: release_info

.gitmodules

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "submodules/uAssets"]
-	path = submodules/uAssets
-	url = https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets.git

Makefile

@@ -6,10 +6,7 @@ run_options := $(filter-out $@,$(MAKECMDGOALS))
 
 sources := $(wildcard assets/resources/* dist/version src/* src/*/* src/*/*/* src/*/*/*/*)
 platform := $(wildcard platform/* platform/*/* platform/*/*/* platform/*/*/*/*)
-assets := $(wildcard submodules/uAssets/* \
-                     submodules/uAssets/*/* \
-                     submodules/uAssets/*/*/* \
-                     submodules/uAssets/*/*/*/*)
+assets := dist/build/uAssets
 
 all: chromium firefox npm
 
@@ -61,9 +58,8 @@ mv3-quick: tools/make-mv3.sh $(sources) $(platform)
 mv3-full: tools/make-mv3.sh $(sources) $(platform)
 	tools/make-mv3.sh full
 
-# Update submodules.
-update-submodules:
-	tools/update-submodules.sh
+dist/build/uAssets:
+	tools/pull-assets.sh
 
 clean:
 	rm -rf dist/build tmp/node_modules

assets/assets.json

@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@
 		"title": "EasyList",
 		"contentURL": [
 			"https://ublockorigin.github.io/uAssets/thirdparties/easylist.txt",
+			"assets/thirdparties/easylist/easylist.txt",
 			"assets/thirdparties/easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist.txt"
 		],
 		"cdnURLs": [
@@ -227,6 +228,7 @@
 		"title": "EasyPrivacy",
 		"contentURL": [
 			"https://ublockorigin.github.io/uAssets/thirdparties/easyprivacy.txt",
+			"assets/thirdparties/easylist/easyprivacy.txt",
 			"assets/thirdparties/easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt"
 		],
 		"cdnURLs": [

submodules/uAssets

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit af7fc56287ae5b5ed467862a3aa4aac0c8ce7d5b

tools/make-assets.sh

@@ -13,15 +13,20 @@ cp -R ./assets $DES/
 
 mkdir $DES/thirdparties
 
-git submodule update --depth 1 --init
-UASSETS=submodules/uAssets
+ASSETS_MAIN=dist/build/uAssets/main
+ASSETS_PROD=dist/build/uAssets/prod
 
-cp -R $UASSETS/thirdparties/easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org $DES/thirdparties/
-cp -R $UASSETS/thirdparties/pgl.yoyo.org                       $DES/thirdparties/
-cp -R $UASSETS/thirdparties/publicsuffix.org                   $DES/thirdparties/
-cp -R $UASSETS/thirdparties/urlhaus-filter                     $DES/thirdparties/
+cp -R $ASSETS_MAIN/thirdparties/pgl.yoyo.org     $DES/thirdparties/
+cp -R $ASSETS_MAIN/thirdparties/publicsuffix.org $DES/thirdparties/
+cp -R $ASSETS_MAIN/thirdparties/urlhaus-filter   $DES/thirdparties/
+
+mkdir -p $DES/thirdparties/easylist
+cp $ASSETS_PROD/thirdparties/easy*.txt $DES/thirdparties/easylist/
 
 mkdir $DES/ublock
-cp -R $UASSETS/filters/* $DES/ublock/
-# Optional filter lists: do not include in package
-rm    $DES/ublock/annoyances.txt
+cp $ASSETS_PROD/filters/* $DES/ublock/
+
+# Do not include in package
+rm $DES/ublock/annoyances.txt
+rm $DES/ublock/lan-block.txt
+rm $DES/ublock/ubol-filters.txt

tools/pull-assets.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# This script assumes a linux environment
+
+set -e
+
+DES=dist/build/uAssets
+
+echo "*** Pull assets from remote into $DES"
+git clone --depth 1 --branch master https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets $DES/main
+git clone --depth 1 --branch gh-pages https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets $DES/prod