> "AP" == Alexander Ploumistos writes:
AP> As far as I can tell that change went mostly unnoticed, given that
AP> most of our packages still install addon metadata in
AP> %{_datadir}/appdata/. I visited the relevant wiki page[1] which
AP> %still
AP> lists the old location, but I could not edi
On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 8:09 PM, Alexander Ploumistos
wrote:
> That is a bit confusing. What was the point then? And what should new
> packages be using?
Richard's message was delayed, hence my post. Thanks for clearing that up.
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On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 7:49 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Alexander Ploumistos wrote:
>>
>> Sometime ago, the default location of AppStream metadata for addons
>> (*.metainfo.xml files) changed from %{_datadir}/appdata/ to
>> %{_datadir}/metainfo/[0].
> As far as I'm aware, our Appstream maintainer(s
On 29 July 2017 at 17:49, Rex Dieter wrote:
> As far as I'm aware, our Appstream maintainer(s) are committed to supporting
> both locations (as a matter of fact, told me to continue using
> /usr/share/appdata)
That's partially correct. GNOME Software versions < F25 won't know
about the new locati
Alexander Ploumistos wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Sometime ago, the default location of AppStream metadata for addons
> (*.metainfo.xml files) changed from %{_datadir}/appdata/ to
> %{_datadir}/metainfo/[0].
>
> As far as I can tell that change went mostly unnoticed, given that
> most of our packages
On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Alexander Ploumistos
wrote:
> I visited the relevant wiki page[1] which still
> lists the old location, but I could not edit it, because it says I
> should be a member of the "Packaging" group (btw, who belongs to that
> group and how does one become a member?).
N
Hello all,
Sometime ago, the default location of AppStream metadata for addons
(*.metainfo.xml files) changed from %{_datadir}/appdata/ to
%{_datadir}/metainfo/[0].
As far as I can tell that change went mostly unnoticed, given that
most of our packages still install addon metadata in
%{_datadir}/
