PROPOSAL: Make AppData files mandatory for applications shown in the software center

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Mon Nov 10 09:06:19 UTC 2014


On 9 November 2014 23:11, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> I oppose this kind of censorship, especially because you are implementing it
> at the point of AppStream data generation, and thus your arbitrary policy
> decisions do not affect only the GNOME Software Center, but also any other
> consumer of the AppStream data, where those requirements might not make any
> sense whatsoever.

Actually, I was going to propose doing "gsettings set
org.gnome.software require-appdata true"

I guess you'll have to apologise for that tirade, right?

Richard.


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