The appstream-generator (https://github.com/ximion/appstream-generator) uses the 'md5sums' file present in .deb archives to retrieve the list of contents, and this file doesn't contain information for symlinks - that's why the icon can't be found. It does that for speed, since reading the contents from the actual data.tar.gz/xz would require reading the entire file and that would be too slow.
So the patch to read the symlink would be technically easy, but I don't think it would be accepted. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1639863 Title: Firefox and Thunderbird don't appear in the (new) appstream metadata Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The new generator doesn't understand symlinks unfortunately, so Firefox and Thunderbird don't appear. http://appstream.staging.ubuntu.com/zesty/main/issues/firefox.html laney@nightingale> ls /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox.png lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Oct 25 15:34 /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox.png -> ../../lib/firefox/browser/icons/mozicon128.png To make them work, /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox.png should be a real file. It could either be a copy of the file, or /usr/lib/firefox/browser/icons/mozicon128.png could be a symlink. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1639863/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
