Bug#892364: Appstream data points to libreoffice-common
On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 3:44 PM, Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> wrote:
>> Searching for Libreoffice in a software centre which uses Appstream
>> data (most of them, e.g. gnome-software) brings up Libreoffice but
>> installs libreoffice-common. This is because it contains
>
> One more reason to use apt. Yes, seriously, people on Windows also know
> setup.exe and not only the "App Store"...
Sure, that's not a problem when using apt. But there are people out
there using gnome-software and other software stores, so this is an
actual use case that people will hit.
>> libreoffice-startcenter.desktop which gets extracted into the DEP-11
>> data. libreoffice-common doesn't depend on anything useful so the user
>> does not end up with a useful libreoffice install. It would be better
>
> *sigh*
>
>> to move this libreoffice-startcenter.desktop file into the libreoffice
>> meta package.
>
> I am not sure. Then it wouldn't be a metapackage anymore... And if you
> do that how would people installing e.g. libreoffice-writer,
> libreoffice-calc, libreoffice-impress etc. get a "LibreOffice" (without
> "Writer" etc) entry? They wouldn't.
Indeed. So maybe a solution would be to exclude
libreoffice-startcenter.desktop from appstream metadata, so
gnome-software and other stores don't surface a "LibreOffice" entry
that effectively only installs libreoffice-common.
Not sure how that would work, I'm not familiar with how that metadata
is extracted.
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