Comment 19 for bug 1966142

Corrado,

As the meme says, "well, yes, but actually no". The metadata for store is downloaded separated, it's not get from the installed package (at least for discovery part of the store). The metadata it's only generated in that two cases (AppStream available or .desktop file available). So if the application doesn't make AppStream file or .desktop available, it is impossible to generate metadata for that. This metadata is downloaded and with that, the apps show up in the store. You can read this file where you will find all the metadata: /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jammy_main_dep11_Components-amd64.yml.gz