Heads-up about AppStream 1.0 no longer honoring legacy metadata locations

[Neal Gompa]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 4:01 PM Matthias Klumpp <matthias at tenstral.net> wrote:
>
> Am Mo., 23. Okt. 2023 um 21:14 Uhr schrieb Nate Graham <nate at kde.org>:
> > [...]
> > Thanks for the extra info, Matthias!
> >
> > While I have you here, where should the contents of
> > /usr/share/app-info/icons/ be relocated to?
>
> To /usr/share/swcatalog/icons/?
>
> > This is where Fedora puts
> > downloaded app icons, and I wasn't able to find where the documentation
> > says they should be moved to.
>
> They put *downloaded* stuff into /usr/share? That sounds like a very
> odd thing to do!
> The icon cache documentation is at
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/sect-AppStream-IconCache.html

No, downloaded stuff is in /var/cache/app-info, but Fedora packages
its AppStream repodata currently (because of reasons[1]), and all
*that* goes into /usr/share.

[1]: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GZ7QN3QLLGGUXVFEDOHHWURXGX767E6D/




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