[AppStream] Appstream ID and Flatpak

[Aleix Pol]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 8:34 AM Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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?

No, not really.
We don't have access to the desktop file on the software center,
especially not before installing the application.

Aleix