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Re: How to provide AppStream data by upstream?

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I don’t know if this would be considered the best way to do it, but with electrum I simply 
handle the AppStream file manually in electrum.install.

https://salsa.debian.org/cryptocoin-team/electrum/-/blob/master/debian/electrum.install?
ref_type=heads[1]

In this case I wrote the AppStream file myself and submitted it to the upstream project, 
which is now maintaining it in their code base.

On Wednesday, February 14, 2024 9:31:14 AM MST c.buhtz@posteo.jp wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> imagine an upstream project providing an AppStream data file
> (foobar.metainfo.xml) and it is a full qualified Python project using
> state of the art build system (pyproject.toml, setuptools or something
> similiar, src-layout).
> 
> Should the foobar.metainfo.xml file be a part of the upstream build
> process (e.g. as custom build step in setuptools)? Or shouldn't that
> file be involved in the upstreams Python-native build process?
> Does distro maintainers (you) recognize the existance of such files and
> you take care yourself via an exceptional magic debian-build-rule that
> this file is part of the deb-package and installed into
> /usr/share/metainfo/ ?
> 
> What is your preferet way?
> 
> The location /usr/share/metainfo is specified by freedesktop.org and
> should be the same on all distros. But their might be exceptions.
> 
> The question is who is responsible for locating that xml file into the
> correct place? How can decide what the correct place is?
> 
> Thanks
> Christian


-- 
Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org

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[1] https://salsa.debian.org/cryptocoin-team/electrum/-/blob/master/debian/
electrum.install?ref_type=heads

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