[AppStream] AppStream Generator 0.8.4 released!

Matthias Klumpp matthias at tenstral.net
Tue Mar 2 12:12:23 UTC 2021


Hi!
A new appstream-generator release is out was well, matching the recent
AppStream 0.14.2 release.

Tarballs available here: https://github.com/ximion/appstream-generator/releases

Cheers,
    Matthias

Version 0.8.4
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Released: 2021-03-02

Features:
 * Replace our HashMap with native associative arrays
 * Switch back to using the curl-based downloader again
 * Use the desktop-entry parsing code from appstream-compose
 * Try finding icons in /usr/share/icons root directory as well
 * Update our own metainfo file and validate it

Bugfixes:
 * snap: Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the stage dir for asgen's build
 * snap: Install curl as a normal build-package
 * snap: Build with -j1
 * debian: Forget a package's filename when removing its temporary dir
 * debian: Add more synchronization
 * zarchive: Log the error when we can't open an archive
 * various: Improve builddir != srcdir builds and build the snap like this
 * Replace theme icon generator concurrency with a range
 * snap: Build AppStream in debugoptimized mode instead of release mode

Contributors:
 Iain Lane, Matthias Klumpp

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