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Tristelune

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Registered: 2007-10-09

Posts: 86

[SOLVED] Appdata files in PKGBUILD

Hello,

I maintain the PKGBUILD for the application gimagereader. I have discovered and appdata file
which is part of the application. Appdata files are new to me. I have seen they provide metadata which can be used
by the package manager, following the guidelines on: http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/.

gimagereader provides a file to build rpm packages. For that kind of package, the package appdata-tools
is necessary to validate the appdata file for gimagereader. Do we have to validate appdata files in PKGBUILD ?
Or it's not necessary and we can drop the dependency of appdata-tools ?

Thank you!

Last edited by Tristelune (2014-08-30 16:14:45)

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: [SOLVED] Appdata files in PKGBUILD

What happens if I don't ship this file?

The GNOME Software Center currently shows a nag message that the upstream project doesn't ship the additional data. Additionally, we will penalize apps that do not ship the extra metadata by showing them lower in the search results.

Afaict pacman has no support for appdata files.
You could maybe use it to verify the content of fields like license in the PKGBUILD, but imo opinion that should be done manually.

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Tristelune

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Registered: 2007-10-09

Posts: 86

Re: [SOLVED] Appdata files in PKGBUILD

You could maybe use it to verify the content of fields like license in the PKGBUILD, but imo opinion that should be done manually.

Ok, it's what I thought. I'll have a look at it, but I won't add the dependency.

Thank you!