Package: gnome-software Version: 3.36.0-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainers,
On a clean installation of Debian Sid with GNOME 3, I found myself unable to use `gnome-software` as Debian packages where not listed at all. It seems that gnome-software’s checks that `/usr/share/appdata` exists as a condition to enable the `appstream` plugin. At startup, gnome-software shows these logs: ``` 16:37:41:0068 Gs enabled plugins: desktop-categories, fwupd, os-release, packagekit, packagekit-local, packagekit-offline, packagekit-proxy, packagekit-refine-repos, packagekit-refresh, packagekit-upgrade, packagekit-url-to-app, desktop-menu-path, flatpak, hardcoded-blacklist, hardcoded-popular, modalias, packagekit-refine, rewrite-resource, odrs, packagekit-history, provenance, systemd-updates, generic-updates, provenance-license, icons, key-colors, key-colors-metadata 16:37:41:0068 Gs disabled plugins: dpkg, dummy, repos, appstream ``` With option `--verbose` it also shows this log: ``` 16:34:31:0313 Gs disabling appstream as setup failed: Error opening directory ?/usr/share/appdata?: No such file or directory ``` I believe this check should either be removed or a package (either `gnome-software` or `appstream`) should create the `/usr/share/appdata`. --- -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages gnome-software depends on: ii appstream 0.12.10-2 ii apt-config-icons 0.12.10-2 ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.36.0-1 ii gnome-software-common 3.36.0-2 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.36.0-1 ii libappstream-glib8 0.7.17-1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.36.0-2 ii libc6 2.30-4 ii libcairo2 1.16.0-4 ii libfwupd2 1.3.9-4 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.40.0+dfsg-4 ii libglib2.0-0 2.64.2-1 ii libgspell-1-2 1.8.3-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.18-1 ii libgtk3-perl 0.037-1 ii libgudev-1.0-0 233-1 ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.4.4-2 ii libpackagekit-glib2-18 1.1.13-2+b1 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-26 ii libsoup2.4-1 2.70.0-1 ii libxmlb1 0.1.15-2 ii packagekit 1.1.13-2+b1 ii software-properties-gtk 0.96.20.2-2.1 Versions of packages gnome-software recommends: ii fwupd 1.3.9-4 Versions of packages gnome-software suggests: pn apt-config-icons-hidpi <none> ii gnome-software-plugin-flatpak 3.36.0-2 pn gnome-software-plugin-snap <none> -- no debconf information -- Johan Fleury PGP Key ID : 0x5D404386805E56E6
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