Re: debian/upstream/metadata: registry item for the Blends' task pages?

[Dylan Aïssi <bob.dybian@gmail.com>]

Hi,

2017-08-12 13:25 GMT+02:00 Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>:
>
> On 12.08.17 11:31, Charles Plessy wrote:
>>
>> I wonder if this metadata would be even more useful via AppStream.  From
>> https://appstream.debian.org/:
>>
>>       AppStream is a cross-distro XML format to provide metadata for software
>>       components and to assign unique identifiers to software.
>
>
> I was not aware of it. So, yes, it should go to upstream. I just do not
> fully grasp how to get it in and - is not everything in
> upstream/metadata something for appstream? Also, from what I got, this
> shoud all be redistributed with the upstream source tree and not be kept
> within Debian to the degree I got this right.
>

I agree that could be pushed in the appstream file instead the
metadata file. By this way, it will be easier reused by other
distributions.
Indeed, appstream and upstream/metadata seems to be redundant. We
should probably propose new fields in the specification [1].
We can distribute the appstream file in the deb package until upstream
redistribute it. It was what I have done with the galileo package.

Best regards,
Dylan

[1] https://github.com/ximion/appstream/issues