On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 7:54 AM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 25 2023 at 09:15:37 PM -0400, Neal Gompa > <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There was no switching. Both appstream-util and appstreamcli are > > considered conformant. > > > > Ultimately, the only way we can stop relying on appstream-glib is if > > appstream-builder[1] was reimplemented on top of libappstream-compose. > > > > Long ago, I tried to see if we could have our AppStream data produced > > as repodata instead of a package, but the answer I got was that we > > need the functionality added to createrepo to do it[2]. If someone > > ever got around to making that happen, a lot of things in our pipeline > > could be simplified. > > > > [1]: > > https://github.com/hughsie/appstream-glib/tree/main/libappstream-builder > > [2]: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/createrepo_c/issues/75 > > Hi, > > Matthias Klumpp has suggested using a tool called appstream-generator: > > https://github.com/ximion/appstream/issues/476#issuecomment-1776286096 > > It's pretty clear the two tools have incompatible ideas of what > metadata is valid, and the apptsream-glib repo has a big warning that > you shouldn't actually use it, so upstreams will continue to migrate > from appstream-util to appstreamcli regardless of what Fedora does. > We'll probably encounter more problems as time goes on. > I know appstream-generator (I'm the maintainer of it in Fedora). The RPM backend is not equivalent to the one we have for appstream-builder. It may or may not need work for us to use it. The two tools don't have incompatible ideas of valid metadata, we intentionally don't do strict validation. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ 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
