• How to provide AppStream data by =?UTF-8?Q?upstream=3F?=

    From c.buhtz@posteo.jp@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 14 17:40:04 2024
    Hello,

    imagine an upstream project providing an AppStream data file (foobar.metainfo.xml) and it is a full qualified Python project using
    state of the art build system (pyproject.toml, setuptools or something similiar, src-layout).

    Should the foobar.metainfo.xml file be a part of the upstream build
    process (e.g. as custom build step in setuptools)? Or shouldn't that
    file be involved in the upstreams Python-native build process?
    Does distro maintainers (you) recognize the existance of such files and
    you take care yourself via an exceptional magic debian-build-rule that
    this file is part of the deb-package and installed into
    /usr/share/metainfo/ ?

    What is your preferet way?

    The location /usr/share/metainfo is specified by freedesktop.org and
    should be the same on all distros. But their might be exceptions.

    The question is who is responsible for locating that xml file into the
    correct place? How can decide what the correct place is?

    Thanks
    Christian

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