Re: Appdata file location and the packaging guidelines
Ian McInerney kirjoitti 16.1.2021 klo 22.06:
I noticed due to an upstream bug report for a project I am on that
the Fedora packaging guidelines still say that GUI applications should install their files
as appdata.xml files and not metainfo.xml files
(https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/AppData/). The upstream spec
for the appstream says that everything should be installed as metainfo.xml files and there
are no more appdata.xml files.
I found that there was an issue opened to the packaging committee a year ago
(https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/944), but there has been no comment/follow-up
since then. Should the Fedora guidelines be updated to match the current spec?
Discussion about the same issue in the packaging list motivated me to
create a pull request
<https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/1041#> for updating
the guidelines. Any feedback is appreciated.
Otto