Hi, 2017-08-12 13:25 GMT+02:00 Steffen Möller <[email protected]>: > > On 12.08.17 11:31, Charles Plessy wrote: >> >> I wonder if this metadata would be even more useful via AppStream. From >> https://appstream.debian.org/: >> >> AppStream is a cross-distro XML format to provide metadata for software >> components and to assign unique identifiers to software. > > > I was not aware of it. So, yes, it should go to upstream. I just do not > fully grasp how to get it in and - is not everything in > upstream/metadata something for appstream? Also, from what I got, this > shoud all be redistributed with the upstream source tree and not be kept > within Debian to the degree I got this right. >
I agree that could be pushed in the appstream file instead the metadata file. By this way, it will be easier reused by other distributions. Indeed, appstream and upstream/metadata seems to be redundant. We should probably propose new fields in the specification [1]. We can distribute the appstream file in the deb package until upstream redistribute it. It was what I have done with the galileo package. Best regards, Dylan [1] https://github.com/ximion/appstream/issues
