https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1823599 --- Comment #9 from Alexander Ploumistos <alex.ploumistos@xxxxxxxxx> --- Hi Bob, For compatibility reasons, older files named xyz.appdata.xml and placed in /usr/share/appdats are still treated as valid by appstream-util. From the spec's page: Note Component metadata of type desktop-application as described in Section 2.2, “Desktop Applications” can be installed with an .appdata.xml extension as well for historical reasons. AppStream implementations will read the XML files as long as they end up in the right location on the filesystem. Legacy Path AppStream tools scan the /usr/share/appdata/ path for legacy compatibility as well. It should not be used anymore by new software though, even on older Linux distributions (like RHEL 7 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) the metainfo path is well supported. Support for the legacy path will likely be dropped completely with a future AppStream 1.0 release. When the specification for the <id> tag changed, a couple of upstream projects with which I was working at the time opted to use net.sourceforge.<project> as their tag, since the projects are hosted on sf.net. You could do the same, e.g. <id>net.sourceforge.gjots2</id> or use the gjots2 home page domain, if you think it will be around for the foreseeable future: <id>org.freeshell.bhepple.gjots2</id> Did you happen to read https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-id-generic ? Please note that the file should be named gjots2.appdata.xml or gjots2.metainfo.xml; gjots2.metadata.xml is not a valid name and appstream-util will refuse to validate it (it's not difficult to see why you got confused). You could also have the entire id string before metainfo.xml, e.g. net.sourceforge.gjots2.metainfo.xml. This is also "encouraged" for desktop files: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ By the way, the "Encoding" key in your desktop file has been deprecated for quite some time. I hope all that helps. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are always notified about changes to this product and component _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list -- package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to package-review-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/package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
