Ubuntu
appstream-data package

Remove appstream-data from Ubuntu (xenial)

Bug #1548157 reported by Matthias Klumpp
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
appstream-data (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

Hi!
Since Ubuntu ships AppStream metadata in its archive (starting with xenial), shipping static data in a package is no longer necessary.
In fact, if the package is accidentally installed on a system, it interferes with the fresh data from the archive server due to AppStream-ID collisions.

Please remove the appstream-data package (and all binary packages) from xenial.

appstream-data has no reverse-dependencies anymore.

Cheers,
    Matthias

Revision history for this message
Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

Should discover, appstream or something else conflict with this package so people can't accidentally have it installed?

Revision history for this message
Matthias Klumpp (ximion) wrote :

Good question... Depends on whether we want to reintroduce the package later, or if some 3rd-parties want to provide a package with that name (likely not the case, so probably having appstream conflict with appstream-data makes sense).

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in appstream-data (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Fix Released
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