Pushing AppStream data to KDE project's master branches

Alex Merry alex.merry at kde.org
Sun Aug 3 11:20:48 BST 2014


On Sunday 03 August 2014 01:41:29 Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> We are speaking of a small bit of XML, which is placed in
> CMAKE_INSTALL_METAINFODIR (/usr/share/appdata) - so this is not a
> change which could break anything (in case you still don't like it,
> you can always git-revert, but in that case, it might happen that
> distributors make up their own metadata file).

Are you only planning to push these to projects that depend on extra-cmake-
modules 5.1? Because kdelibs 4.x and e-c-m 5.0 don't define an installation 
directory for appdata.

Of course, for those projects, you can just install to 
${SHARE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/appdata.

Alex




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