PPAs: no appstream-generator / dep11 data
Bug #1574948 reported by
Rik Shaw
This bug affects 6 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Launchpad PPAs aren't generating the dep11 folders containing the Components-*-yml* and icons-*.tar.gz files needed for the necessary appstream data that in turn allows the apps to show up in gnome-software / ubuntu-software.
For example see the main ubuntu repository:
http://
And compare with a Launchpad PPA:
http://
As I understand, the dep11 folder contents from the main repository are what allow the items to appear in gnome-software.
Thanks for any help in getting PPA software to appear in gnome-software!
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Right, the DEP-11 metadata is generated by a separate chunk of code and synced into Launchpad. It's not at all clear how we might go about doing this for PPAs; it would be infeasibly expensive to run the full-scale metadata extractor on all of them, but perhaps there is some reasonable smaller-scale substitute.
Iain, do you have any suggestions here?