Thanks for the report Mario.
Note that chromium-browser.head is not the current packaging branch for
chromium on ubuntu, but regardless you're right, chromium on ubuntu
doesn't ship the upstream appdata file, and it should.
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776912
Title:
chromium-browser package does NOT install an AppData file
Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
In order for Chromium Browser to integrate properly with software
centers (e.g. GNOME Software), an additional XML file with metadata
needs to be installed under /usr/share/metainfo, in the form of an
"AppData file", containing the relevant bits according to the
AppStream specification:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs
Fortunately, upstream has included that file in the chromium
repository for a while (since [1]) and, as far as I can see, Fedora is
already installing that file in its place, see
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/chromium/blob/9cdea2b9/f/chromium.spec#_1462
I have quickly looked into the .install and rules files in of the
chromium-browser package for Ubuntu [2][3] and I could not find any
trace of this happening, so I guess all that would remain here would
be to adapt the debian packaging files to make sure that it gets
installed too for Ubuntu, similar to what Fedora and other distros do
already.
[1]
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/d6807b9a7da70dae9191b93d4ec6157187515078%5E%21
[2]
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~chromium-team/chromium-browser/chromium-browser.head/view/head:/debian/chromium-browser.install
[3]
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~chromium-team/chromium-browser/chromium-browser.head/view/head:/debian/rules
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Quickstart.html#sect-Quickstart-DesktopApps
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