On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 04:03:36PM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 11 January 2017 at 15:52, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> <zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote:
> > This amount of breakage (65 packages, *despite* validation)
> 
> Most of those packages don't validate the AppData file...
> 
> > and no filtering should be done during display.
> 
> It isn't -- that status page is for apps that don't even get into the 
> metadata.
> 
> > If there are some issues with an appdata entry, both users and the
> > package maintainers would be much better served if it is displayed,
> > even imperfect and ugly, than not at all.
> 
> You mean just display a stock broken image for the application icon?
> No description for markup problems?

Yeah, I do think that this would be better.

> > It would be much easier to
> > diagnose things, and would probably encourage more people to fix those
> > visual issues. Currently it's just too easy to never see the problem.
> > Filtering in this final "user" stage just seems to be in the wrong
> > place, and goes against the principle of gentle degradation.
> 
> I think the opposite might be the solution; fail the rpmbuild if the
> appdata is invalid. Then the packager knows at build time rather than
> having to check some random status page.

Exactly. Make this check the most stringent, to catch the errors in a
verbose way. But if it passes, even with warnings, don't filter the
application out in later steps.

Zbyszek
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