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Stop moving metadata->appdata when all runtimes support metadata #252
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I know that the supposed "new" location is metainfo. However, there is no practical difference from using the two, except that "metainfo" doesn't work on runtimes that have older versions of the appstream-compose tool. So, we support apps that install in whichever directory, and then tweak this in f-b to support old runtimes. Eventually we could change this i guess. As old runtimes are phased out. |
OK, make sense. Maybe keep this open then though? |
Sure. |
How old is old here? |
Looks like the 18.08 Flatpak will need to still support apps that have metainfo in the legacy path for backwards compat, but we can export it into the new path. |
The old path will not be supported by the upcoming AppStream 1.0 release, and the new path is well supported. Fixes #252
The old path will not be supported by the upcoming AppStream 1.0 release, and the new path is well supported. Fixes #252
For the record, it was a problem for GIMP (dev version) today. We just implemented a welcome dialog feature showing the release notes when an update (software update, not package update) happened. We are using the So anyway I am working around the issue for now, but it's not too nice that the package system moves our data like this, especially when installing it to the location recommended by specs. So I will be looking this report until it gets closed (i.e. that the file is not moved by flatpak-builder anymore) now. :-) |
Flatpak-builder version
flatpak-builder 1.0.1
Description of the problem
The correct place for those files is
metainfo
, see flatpak/flatpak#30, butflatpak-builder
moves them toappdata
, leavingmetainfo
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