On 15.08.17 00:17, Dylan Aïssi wrote: > 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
@Andreas, I am mostly concerned about getting the references to registries as quickly as possible to our task pages. What do you suggest? Continue for now with debian/upstream/metadata and move to appstream as soon as we know how this all relates to upstream/metadata and have made respective holistic decisions? Best, Steffen
