elementary / appstream-data

AppStream data for Pantheon

Launchpad PPAs do not support AppStream data in the sense that it is not globbed together for each package in a PPA and published to the repository in the way that it would be downloaded with an apt update.

To work around this and provide AppStream data for elementary packages available from the stable PPA, the build.sh script in this repository downloads a local mirror of the PPA and runs appstream-generator on it to generate the necessary metadata tarball. This is then packaged up as a .deb package and uploaded to the same PPA. When installed, it puts the metadata in a location where AppStream would expect to find it.

Building this metadata properly requires the elementary-icon-theme package to be installed so that the relevant icons can be extracted. So in a CI environment, an elementary Docker container is used. To build the metadata locally, you can use the following command:

docker run -i -v ${PWD}:/repo elementary/docker:stable /bin/bash -s bionic stable < build.sh

appstream-data's Issues

Create transitional packages for appstream-data-pantheon-loki*

Various apps show placeholder icons

Was a bug in Loki

Steam has no icon

This was working in Loki Daily but not for Juno

Screenshot has no icon

Rename package to io.elementary.appstream-data

Icons not displaying for apps such as Code or Music in Appcenter

Icons for Screenshot, Music and Code apps from elementary LLC. aren't displaying in the AppCenter.
Here is a screenshot:

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Manually rebuild for Odin

Need it before release

Drop manual data

We're shipping some manually-created data for apps like Firefox, Thunderbird, and Steam. This means ootb in Odin those apps show up as Debs in AppCenter from the Ubuntu repos when we'd prefer people install them from an up-to-date source like Flathub.

Code has no icon

Was a bug in Loki

Upgrade docker to odin-stable

What Happened

I had to revert the docker container to juno-stable to make the build process succeed

Expected Behavior

We should probably update the build process to make sure it builds on odin-stable

Plank has no icon

Firefox is missing

Where did it go?