Bug#848839: wine: Doesn't show in Software app, missing appstream metadata

2017-01-06 Thread Jens Reyer 
On 20.12.2016 05:55, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> The next version of Debian will ship gnome-software by default in the
> GNOME version. Currently, wine does not show in the Software app if it
> is not already installed.

Yes, we should fix that, and I hope we get that done for stretch.


> When I look at the 1.8.5-1 package, I don't see a .desktop (except for
> one you have stored in the examples directory).

wine.desktop would be ignored by appstream even if it was installed in
/usr/share/applications/, because it has

  NoDisplay=true

See
https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines#How_to_exclude_.desktop_files_from_the_metadata


I've started working on an appdata.xml file, attached. Help and feedback
welcome.

TODO:

* validate

*  must be unique (wine vs. wine-development), but the current
implementation should be ok

*  needs to be implemented correctly (which icon to use?)

*  needs automation (preferrably by upstream), this is a
mandatory field.

*  misses and needs automation (preferrably by upstream)

* use in debian packaging

* submit upstream


Greets
jre

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Bug#848839: wine: Doesn't show in Software app, missing appstream metadata

2016-12-19 Thread Jeremy Bicha 
Package: wine
Version: 1.8.5-1

The next version of Debian will ship gnome-software by default in the
GNOME version. Currently, wine does not show in the Software app if it
is not already installed.

When I look at the 1.8.5-1 package, I don't see a .desktop (except for
one you have stored in the examples directory). As for gnome-software,
I don't know whether a .desktop is necessary. The preferred metadata
is appstream metadata and I think the .desktop is just used as a
minimal substitute if there is not appstream metadata present. (I
tried looking earlier and it was very difficult for me to try to find
an app that did not have a .desktop that showed in gnome-software.)

For more info about creating the appstream metadata, see
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/
https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha