[AppStream] Appstream ID and Flatpak

[Alexander Larsson]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 1:25 AM Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> I'm sorry for resurrecting this thread but this issue persists and
> this only makes the problem bigger.
>
> A way to mitigate this issue would be to include at least the
> appstream id of the component from before renaming in the
> appstream.xml.gz file that gets distributed by the repositories. (see
> Klumpp's suggestion WRT
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-provides)
>
> Or otherwise, we can find a smarter different way that I can't see at
> the moment. But breaking the id part of appstream dilutes a lot its
> appeal and proves we just have a hard time at working together.

In flatpak-builder 1.0, when renaming a desktop file we add a
X-Flatpak-RenamedFrom key in the desktop file. Does this help you?



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