[yokota] > Sorry. > Here is my understanding. > > Application ID must be same along with other OSs/systems. So, we can > change application ID first, but must accept the new ID by upstream > later. > > * > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-id-generic
In reality it is optional, and the only effect it has to anything in the real world is affecting the abililty to map program packages across distributions to each other. > And XDG desktop standards recommends application IDs as there desktop > entry file name. True, but there is nothing enforcing this, and nothing failing if they are not, and all we might eventually get a lintian or appstream validataion warning. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
