Bug#1086181: lintian: Many false positive warnings for appstream-metadata-validation-failed

[Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>]

On 2024-10-28 9 h 12 a.m., Peter B wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.119.0
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: peter@pblackman.plus.com
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Since the release of version 2.119.0, the package trackers for many 
> (possibly all)
> packages that have Appstream metadata are showing the warning
>   "appstream-metadata-validation-failed".
>
> However, the metadata is valid according to
> "appstreamcli validate"  &  "appstream-util validate".
>
> The link in the tag notes
>    https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines
> does not contain any clues as to what might be the problem here.
>
> If these are not false positives,
> please provide information on what maintainers are expected to do about 
> them.
>
>
> Appstream is an optional upstream feature.
> Please consider introducing Appstream related tags at a lower severity 
> than Warning.
>
>
> Regards,
> Peter

Hi,

Thanks for reporting this issue. The lintian tag message says the 
command you should run is `appstreamcli validate-tree --no-net` and not 
`appstreamcli validate`.

Can you try that instead?

As for more information, the wiki page refers to 
https://appstream.debian.org/, which seems to give detailed information 
about issues flagged.

Cheers,

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