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patch #8866: [octave forge] (image) add metainfo.xml file for Gnome Software

Submitter:  Colin Macdonald <cbm>
Submitted:  Mon 18 Jan 2016 08:13:35 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Forge : new feature Priority:  5 - Normal
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
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Tue 31 Jul 2018 06:02:29 PM UTC, comment #6: 

Yes I think this can be closed.

Colin Macdonald <cbm>
Tue 10 Apr 2018 06:03:06 AM UTC, comment #5: 

Can this patch be considered done?

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
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Sun 07 Feb 2016 05:18:37 AM UTC, comment #4: 

I'm really no expert, but the AppData philosophy seems to be that "upstream" (you) are in a better position to describe your own software.  A user searches for e.g., "image processing" and they find Octave and the image package.

1. agreed!  If you wish, you can drop the description tag: its not used for anything in current package managers.  The phrasing of the description and summary tags has specific requirements so its not easy to just (e.g.,) extract it from DESCRIPTION.  The other way around is probably do-able.

2. eventually the file needs to go in $prefix/share/appdata.  I'm uncertain where to keep it as well.  I thought its similar to DESCRIPTION.  GNU Octave has it in etc/icons.  I should look around and see what common practice is.

3.  keywords are free form: I just put some commonly used functions that I thought users might search for.  Feel free to change them.

Colin Macdonald <cbm>
Sun 07 Feb 2016 12:35:40 AM UTC, comment #3: 

I have pushed this 3 commits with only minor changes to the commit message.

http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/image/rev/8777e6a04e6c
http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/image/rev/882811e1266d
http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/image/rev/c36a82a7d175

However, I'm not very comfortable with a couple of things.

1) duplication of the content from DESCRIPTION
2) the file at the root of the package (is there a standard or recommended place?)
3) function names as keywords (is there a list of available keywords to pick from?)

To be honest I haven't looked very deep into AppStream. I'm not even sure what is the problem that AppStream is trying to solve.

Carnë Draug <carandraug>
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Fri 05 Feb 2016 06:59:02 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Updated patch, now with simpler license due to upstream changes.

(file #36257)

Colin Macdonald <cbm>
Sat 30 Jan 2016 07:39:01 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Here's an updated patch, which adds keywords and adjusts the copyright notice.

(FYI, license choice is discussed at
https://github.com/hughsie/appdata-tools#27)

(file #36206)

Colin Macdonald <cbm>
Mon 18 Jan 2016 08:13:35 PM UTC, original submission:  

Gnome Software (and other GUI package managers) uses metainfo.xml files to link pkgs as "Add-ons", in this case to GNU Octave.

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/sect-Metadata-Addon.html

Here is a patch to add such a file.  For now, it is included in the dist tarball.  But for now its up to downstream packagers to do something with this file (typically validate it and install it in "/usr/share/appdata" or similar).




Colin Macdonald <cbm>

 

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file #36257:  add-metainfo-xml-3.patch added by cbm (4KiB - text/x-patch - updated patch)
file #36206:  add-metainfo-xml-2.patch added by cbm (3KiB - text/x-patch - uodated patch)
file #36083:  add-metainfo-xml.patch added by cbm (1KiB - text/x-patch)

 

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    2019-03-07 mtmiller Carbon-CopyRemoved 80942 -
    2018-07-31 mtmiller StatusNone Done
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2018-04-10 mtmiller CategoryNone Forge : new feature
        Summaryimage package: add metainfo.xml file for Gnome Software [octave forge] (image) add metainfo.xml file for Gnome Software
    2016-02-05 cbm Attached File- Added add-metainfo-xml-3.patch, #36257
    2016-01-30 cbm Attached File- Added add-metainfo-xml-2.patch, #36206
    2016-01-18 cbm Attached File- Added add-metainfo-xml.patch, #36083

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