I created a flatpak package for Widelands.
https://github.com/scx/widelands-flatpak
I am in the process of submitting it to the Flathub repo.
https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/394
https://github.com/scx/flathub/tree/org.widelands.widelands
It would be nice if Widelands Team decided to participate in the further development of this flatpak package.
Due to the Flathub requirements, I had to make some changes to the AppData file:
1. change value of the "id" tag from "org.widelands.widelands.desktop" to "org.widelands.widelands" - https://github.com/flathub/flathub/wiki/AppData-Guidelines#id
2. add "provides" tag - https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-provides
3. add "launchable" tag - https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-launchable
These changes should be upstreamed: https://code.launchpad.net/~the-scx/widelands/build19-flatpak
- Fix compilation against ICU 61 - https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~the-scx/widelands/build19-flatpak/revision/8150
- Fix AppData file - https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~the-scx/widelands/build19-flatpak/revision/8151
I prepared analogous changes to the trunk branch: https://code.launchpad.net/~the-scx/widelands/trunk-flatpak
- Additionally, I have removed the invalid "icon" tag: https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~the-scx/widelands/trunk-flatpak/revision/8939
You should also consider renaming the AppData file from "widelands.appdata.xml" to "org.widelands.widelands.appdata.xml". The same applies to the icons: data/images/logos/wl-ico-*.png
This is not required, but I have been forced by Flathub maintainers to at least try to convince you to do it.
I will be grateful for any comments on this. It would be nice if someone from the Widelands Team would speak here:
https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/394#pullrequestreview-171796328
BTW, you should also look at this: https://github.com/hughsie/appstream-glib/issues/270
Hi scx, thanks for your work to get widelands into the flatpak repo :-)
I am not familiar with the changes to appdata, but there were some issues with it in the past. Please be patient and wait for GunChleoc... but it may take some time (weeks) until an answer arrives here.