Hello, According to our packaging guidelines[1], "you MUST run appstream-util validate-relax (in %check or %install) and have BuildRequires: libappstream-glib, to help ensure the validity and safety of the appdata files you’re installing". For quite some time now, I've been seeing references to another tool, appstreamcli (provided by the appstream[2] package), being used instead of appstream-util. Debian guidelines recommend it[3], it's documented upstream[4] and apparently there are a few fedora packages that use it already[5] (google found 10, I know of a couple more). By the way, if you take a closer look, some of these packages appear to use the "--nonet" flag from appstream-util instead of "--no-net", which is used by appstreamcli. Furthermore, on the web page of AppStream-Glib there's a warning that it is in heavy maintenance mode and to use appstream instead[6]. By all indications, appstream will replace appstream-glib and in the case of the corresponding validator utilities, this has already begun. However, at least on this list, I was unable to find any clue that this was happening and there are zero mentions of appstreamcli on docs.fedoraproject org, hence this message. Could someone involved with AppStream please provide some information? Shouldn't our documentation be changed to reflect these changes? Does the FPC need to decide on this? Best regards, Alexander 1. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/AppData/ 2. https://github.com/ximion/appstream 3. https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines 4. https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/api/re32.html 5. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22appstreamcli+validate%22+site%3Asrc.fedoraproject.org%2Frpms%2F 6. https://github.com/hughsie/appstream-glib _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
