> If a metainfo file provides a `<provides/>` tag, distributors must also 
> ensure that the package providing the file contain all items referenced by 
> that statement, or is installed by a metapackage depending on packages which 
> provide these items.

This sounds like if this file becomes outdated, distributors would be supposed 
to stop distributing Geany.

> This gives upstream projects a (very light) way to influence distributor 
> packaging.

Meh.  It's not our role to package for a distribution, nor to influence it 
farther than making a sensible product.

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