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nautilus-dropbox package

GNOME Software catalog entry missing for nautilus-dropbox in Zesty

Bug #1662681 reported by AsciiWolf
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appstream-generator (Ubuntu)
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nautilus-dropbox (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

The nautilus-dropbox package cannot be found and/or installed using GNOME Software (Ubuntu Software) because the needed AppStream metadata seems to be completely missing in Ubuntu 17.04. Probably some issue with appstream-generator?

Tags: zesty
AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)
no longer affects: appstream-dep11 (Ubuntu)
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AsciiWolf (asciiwolf) wrote :

http://appstream.ubuntu.com/yakkety/multiverse/issues/nautilus-dropbox.html
http://appstream.ubuntu.com/zesty/multiverse/issues/nautilus-dropbox.html

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Matthias Klumpp (ximion) wrote :

Well, this package is in Yakkety and there are no issues preventing it from showing up, so no asgen bug there.

The nautilus-dropbox package could only improve the situation a bit by adding a proper metainfo file for a Nautilus addon: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/sect-Metadata-Addon.html

Changed in appstream-generator (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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AsciiWolf (asciiwolf) wrote :

Where is the problem then? There were no changes in the nautilus-dropbox package since Yakkety, but the AppStream metadata for this package are missing in Zesty, for some reason.

Changed in appstream-generator (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → New
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Matthias Klumpp (ximion) wrote :

Right, sorry - I hastily only looked at the first link.
This is indeed very strange.
Iain, can you please take a look at this?

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

Dunno. The logs say that it never saw the current version.

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

They're all at http://appstream.ubuntu.com/logs/ btw

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

Removed, it should get reprocessed, we'll see if that works

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Matthias Klumpp (ximion) wrote :

Weird... Asgen will log even packages that are completely ignored, so it should show up in the logs...
Thanks for reprocessing, let's see if that helps :-)

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AsciiWolf (asciiwolf) wrote :

It looks like the issue has been fixed. Thanks!

Changed in appstream-generator (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
Changed in nautilus-dropbox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

So it was never processed(?), but when I dropped it, it knew about the new version number...

http://appstream.ubuntu.com/logs/2017/03/07_1606.log

2017-03-07 16:06:24 - INFO: Removed package with ID: nautilus-dropbox/2015.10.28-1/amd64
2017-03-07 16:06:25 - INFO: Removed package with ID: nautilus-dropbox/2015.10.28-1/i386

I wonder how that can happen

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Matthias Klumpp (ximion) wrote :

It can't happen... It must have been processed to be in the database, and in that case we'd have a log message. It obviously was in the db though.
The only way I see this could have happened is by having the generator crash at a bad time.

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