Bug#734524: Include AppData files in packages

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

severity 734524 whistlist
thanks

On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 09:28:29PM +0100, Alexander Wilms wrote:
>  Could you please add the appdata.xml files to the packages? They
> need need to be installed to /usr/share/appdata Files: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/sysui/desktop/appstream-appdata?id=ceb9e098fc6efcfb7e024057bfa46aa06a295d00

What for?

And more interesting, if it's useful, why isn't it installed by LibreOffice
directly if it's in LibreOffices git?

If I look there, anything it contains is description of what LibreOffice is.
That is the purpose of package descriptions, not some new files..

> AppStream spec: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/

... specifically to a specific software (here: Ubuntu Software Center) ...

Regards,

Rene