Comment 7 for bug 1553156

On Debian evince is at least listed, so I'm not sure why that doesn't work for us and I think it should (but see the next paragraph).

I think there's a second bug, besides it not being listed, that it will try to install evince-common because that's what appstream says the package is for evince.desktop. I wonder if the generator could do something about that like search for the Exec= binary - ximion? This is broken on Debian too FYI: if you remove and re-install evince then you only get evince-common. Moving the .desktop file would be a valid fix but will only fix this case.

> laney@nightingale> appstreamcli search evince.desktop
> Identifier: evince.desktop [desktop]
> Name: Evince
> Summary: View multi-page documents
> Package: evince-common
> Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince
> Icon: evince-common_evince.png

The evince-* entries are metainfo files (not .appdata) that I think describe the different types of files that Evince can show. They aren't applications and so shouldn't be influencing the top-level list, instead being shown as sub entries in Evince's. https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html