FS#51264 - archlinux-appstream-data miss many packages

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Francisco Gonzalez (gzmorell) - Thursday, 06 October 2016, 22:44 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Saturday, 15 October 2016, 21:58 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
archlinux-appstream-data miss a lot of packages.
for example /usr/share/app-info/xmls/extra.xml.gz is missing:
konqueror
qtcreator
sddm
breeze
etc...


Additional info:
* package version(s)
archlinux-appstream-data 20160907-1
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
This task depends upon

Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Saturday, 15 October 2016, 21:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  archlinux-appstream-data 20161014
Comment by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Friday, 07 October 2016, 08:08 GMT
For sddm and breeze: that's expected, as they are not applications. Software centers are not package managers.
For the other ones, it seems that the metadata generator has become much stricter lately in which packages it allows (eg. it doesn't allow .desktop files without a Comment field).
I could work around it by disabling the validator at generation time, but I'm unsure what to do. On one side I don't like deviating from upstream behavior, on the other side I think they are being too strict here and excluding too many packages.

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