Kid3 listed twice on the KDE apps page

[Ben Cooksley]

On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 5:58 PM Urs Fleisch <urs.fleisch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>

Hi Urs,


>
> Yes, there exist two different packages for Kid3:
>
> - kid3: Kid3 with KDE dependencies for users of KDE
> - kid3-qt: Kid3 without KDE dependencies, only Qt, for users of other
> desktop environments
>
> Common code is in libraries and plugins. kid3-qt is also the base for the
> Windows, macOS and Android packages. Although it is possible to provide
> such packages using Craft, the Kid3's build system for other platforms is
> hand-crafted and provides much smaller and better looking packages.
>
> The flatpak is the KDE version because there is only a KDE runtime and not
> a Qt-only runtime for flatpak. Therefore, only the kid3 package has a link
> to flathub. But there seems to be a problem with the other link
> (AppStream/Discover), it is broken for the kid3-qt package because a dash
> is not allowed in the name and therefore it wants to
> access appstream://org.kde.kid3_qt.desktop, which does not exist
> (probably appstream://org.kde.kid3-qt.desktop would work, but then the
> appstream validation would fail). Can this be fixed?
>
> Another problem is that the two entries look more or less the same,
> probably the title of kid3-qt should be adapted to Kid3-Qt if possible.
>

Can appreciate that, however it looks like the package as built on CI is
always building both versions and therefore providing two Appstream files -
and two application pages as a result.
That isn't ideal, as each application really should only be represented
once on apps.kde.org.

Can you confirm if this is the case?


>
> Best regards,
> Urs
>

Thanks,
Ben
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