[AppStream] Appstream ID and Flatpak

[Nate Graham]

So perhaps the Flathub admins (CCd) should contact the owners of the 
apps to Flathub and ask them to harmonize the appstream ids they're 
using on Flathub with the ones they're providing to distros via their 
desktop files.

What should we do going forward to make sure that this divergence 
doesn't happen again in the future?

Nate


On 12/13/2017 09:16 PM, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> 2017-12-13 19:06 GMT+01:00 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com>:
>> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Matthias Klumpp <matthias at tenstral.net>
>> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> That's not necessary (anymore) and not even wanted, because the ID can
>>> be independent from the .desktop filename of the application, and
>>> should (sometimes must) follow a reverse-DNS scheme.
>>
>> But we don't want to go back to the bad old days of multiple ids per
>> application (desktop file name, appstream id, flatpak id, dbus name...) - we
>> chose to unify them for a reason.
> 
> Yes, absolutely not. But people should never ever rename the AppStream
> ID for a specific bundling system, that defeats its purpose.
> Ideally, people would just fix the naming upstream and rename
> component-id / .desktop file, etc. directly, instead of making
> bundling system specific hacks.
> 
> Cheers,
>      Matthias
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