Shotcut AppImage has wrong version set

[probonopd]

./Shotcut-*.AppImage --appimage-extract shotcut.desktop 
cat squashfs-root/shotcut.desktop 
(...)
X-AppImage-Version=.glibc2.14

AppImage desktop integration systems like AppImageLauncher are using this information to display it e.g., in the launcher menu.

export VERSION=... before running appimagetool should do the trick.

Let me know if you need further assistance in fixing this.

[ddennedy]

How do I see the version in the command line outside of AppImageLauncher?

[probonopd]

Hi @ddennedy, as I wrote above:

./Shotcut-*.AppImage --appimage-extract /shotcut.desktop 
cat squashfs-root/shotcut.desktop 

[ddennedy]

😳 sorry I just woke up

[ddennedy]

We use pkg2appimage, and it does not respect the VERSION environment variable even if exported. Per the pkg2appimage source, instead I will create a VERSION file.
This will take effect in the next version.

[probonopd]

Uh, using pkg2appimage should only be the last resort. Why not do a native AppImage build using https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt or https://github.com/linuxdeploy/linuxdeploy-plugin-qt? cc @TheAssassin

[ddennedy]

Because this is how it was contributed, and now I am stuck to maintain it. I have better things to do with my time than spin my wheels rewriting packaging for a very minority of users. Every Linux package format wants their own native build process integrated, but I get along fine with just the portable archive. Both AppImage and Snap are based on this portable archive. This is working good enough for me.

[probonopd]

OK, I understand. Thanks for providing an AppImage. 👍