Re: debian/upstream/metadata: registry item for the Blends' task pages?
On 15.08.17 00:17, Dylan Aïssi wrote:
> 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
@Andreas, I am mostly concerned about getting the references to
registries as quickly as possible to our task pages. What do you
suggest? Continue for now with debian/upstream/metadata and move to
appstream as soon as we know how this all relates to upstream/metadata
and have made respective holistic decisions?
Best,
Steffen
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