[AppStream] Extended info and dep-11

[juanma navarro]

Hi all.
I'm new to the list so greetings to all.

I'm one of the developers of an educational distro based on Ubuntu. We're
implementing a store using appstream but we've meet one big issue due to
our special needs:
Although all of our software is installed via repos we've a few programs
that use a standalone installer launched via a external program. It's
software that we couldn't package (software provided by our government and
other public institutions).
The first solution was to use the <x-$key>value</x-$key> tag on our
appdata.xml with the url of those external installers. This works really
nice but now we're trying to generate a dep11 file to avoid distributing
the xml file and let apt download all the info from our repo but those
custom tags aren't included in the dep11 when we convert via appstreamcli
the xml to yaml.
Perhaps it's a silly question but,,, dep11 supports this custom tags? If
answer is "No"... could apt work with the xml appdata or it only works with
the yaml one?

p.s. I'm not english speaker but I hope I've explained correctly.
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