2018-07-05 23:00 GMT+02:00 Fernando Toledo <[email protected]>: > Package: appstream-generator > Version: 0.7.3-1 > Severity: normal > > Please backport it to stretch. This tool is need for create dep11 > metatada for custom repository using tool like reprepro on debian stable. > > if cannot be ported, what tool are posible to do this task on debian > stretch as alternative?
At debian itself ( https://appstream.debian.org/ ) we just use a locally built version of asgen. A backport to stretch would be *really* hard, because asgen depends on appstream >= 0.12.x which in turn requires a recent GObject-Introspection because the older one in stretch has bugs. That however requires a glib2.0 update. Backporting that chain without breaking stuff is quite a challenge. Locally however, you can build appstream without introspection and also pull a recent LDC release from Debian buster quite easily, making a build of asgen rather simple (a recent version of meson may also be necessary). Alternatively, running the tool in a buster chroot / container also works. Cheers, Matthias -- I welcome VSRE emails. See http://vsre.info/
