Path: csiph.com!news.redatomik.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!news.panservice.it!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Simon McVittie Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: pycharm package in debian Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 23:50:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Wed Oct 4 21:47:44 2017 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.9 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, FOURLA=0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3) X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/15300 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20171004214643.5vke2i5oyapzrgwe@perpetual.pseudorandom.co.uk Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 22 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 22:47:23 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: <20171004214643.5vke2i5oyapzrgwe@perpetual.pseudorandom.co.uk> X-Original-References: <5804be2d-67fa-b7d3-1332-8b362f892b5e@laposte.net> <69cec3b4-0c04-9c9b-961b-a0a65b2d3cb5@gmail.com> <17971bbc-8896-0b60-2d7a-169929a5cb35@gmail.com> <147e2f97-5453-dadd-79f3-78988b44d478@debian.org> <2bd37ee9-c5af-4aef-3541-7f6a485d6706@debian.org> <1507151462.11084.16.camel@ghic.org> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:9918 On Wed, 04 Oct 2017 at 14:11:02 -0700, Diane Trout wrote: > I do wish that these third party app systems like conda, snappy or > flatpak would include metadata like AppStream or DOAP. Flatpak already does. Flatpak apps nearly always include AppStream metadata, which Flatpak's repository maintenance tool aggregates into AppStream distro XML in special branches in the repository for easier access (analogous to how dak aggregates dpkg metadata into dists/**/Packages, and AppStream metadata into DEP-11 YAML). Any Flatpak package that doesn't have AppStream metadata won't appear in GNOME Software (and probably other GUIs), and so will only be installable via the CLI or a web link to a .flatpakref file. DOAP isn't really for this: it provides developer-facing information about projects (source packages), whereas AppStream provides user-facing information about apps (binary packages). If AppStream is like dpkg binary package metadata (control.tar.*), then DOAP is more like the first paragraph of debian/control in a dpkg source package. Regards, smcv