Upstream installs AppData file in /usr/share/appdata

[Samuel Rakitničan]

Hi,

I have a package where upstream installs AppData file in /usr/share/appdata, but the
Fedora Packaging Guidelines says it should be installed to /usr/share/metainfo. I am
wondering how to approach this; should I submit a PR upstream, should I change it locally
or should I leave it unchanged. Are there any compatibility reasons to keep
/usr/share/appdata upstream?

https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Packaging%3AAppData&type=...
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/704

[Neal Gompa]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 9:39 AM, Samuel Rakitničan
<srakitnican(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  I have a package where upstream installs AppData file in /usr/share/appdata, but the
> Fedora Packaging Guidelines says it should be installed to /usr/share/metainfo. I am
> wondering how to approach this; should I submit a PR upstream, should I change it locally
> or should I leave it unchanged. Are there any compatibility reasons to keep
> /usr/share/appdata upstream?
>  
Submit a PR upstream to fix it, and use that patch to change it locally.

-- 
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[Samuel Rakitničan]

>  Submit a PR upstream to fix it, and use that patch to change it
> locally. 
So I did, upstream accepted it, but then it applied old location again. As
it is noted in patch description for compatibility reasons. Now application installs on
both locations.

Should I remove now this files from the old location or they can stay?

[Rex Dieter]

Samuel Rakitničan wrote:

> > Submit a PR upstream to fix it, and use that patch to change it
> locally.
>  So I did, upstream accepted it, but then it applied old location again. As
>  it is noted in patch description for compatibility reasons. Now
>  application installs on both locations.
>  
>  Should I remove now this files from the old location or they can stay? 
You should install only one

-- Rex