Defining a developer name for our applications metadata

[Timothée Ravier]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 8:57 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:

> Wait, so Flathub has begun requiring an older tag that the Appstream
> developers have deprecated?
>
> So we need to add tags to our metadata that are already deprecated and
> which are going to result in future failures of our own unit tests when
> upstream pulls the plug on developer_name as a tag and makes it a warning
> deprecation rather than an information deprecation?
>

See [1] & [2}. It's too soon to move to the new tags as they have just been
documented/introduced (for the new one) and deprecated (for the old one) in
the latest 1.0 Appstream release which requires changes for distributions
to adopt and thus won't be the norm for a while.

It's thus fine to use the old ones for now.

[1] https://github.com/flathub-infra/flatpak-builder-lint/issues/274
[2] https://github.com/flathub-infra/flatpak-builder-lint/issues/273

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Timothée Ravier

CoreOS co-Team Lead

Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com/>

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