Backport to debian oldstable

[probonopd]

Would it be possible to backport the continuous build to something like precise, CentOS 6, or debian oldstable, so that we could point people there? Right now, the appstreamcli version coming with distribution is outdated almost all of the time, giving false results (example).

By providing a backport, the resulting deb/rpm would be expected to run almost everywhere. I could even make an AppImage for it, bundling it with the required libraries.

[ximion]

I can't help with backports to CentOS etc., better ask the distributors about this directly.
Newer AppStream versions also require a relatively new version of GLib, which makes backporting them harder.
Backporting to Debian oldstable is impossible for that reason, only a backport to stable could work (which already ships with a recent enough GLib in backports).
Please file appropriate bugs downstream, there is nothing we can do about this in the upstream project.