On 21 December 2015 at 23:33, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek@in.waw.pl wrote:
I think that this is completely backwards. Either we, as the distribution, decide that appstream is in, and pursue the goal of implementing it, or we don't. We had a vote [https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/414], appstream metadata was approved as "SHOULD". I get it that maintainers don't want to create appstream metadata on their own, but if somebody did the work, I don't see a good excuse to refuse to put the file in rpm.
IMHO, I think you are a pretty bad package (or upstream) maintainer if you refuse to ship a *tiny* extra XML file that makes it easier for users to install your stuff, even if you don't use an application installer yourself.
Richard