On Monday, May 12, 2025 11:31:26 AM Mountain Standard Time Peter Blackman wrote: > On 12/05/2025 17:13, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > In my experiences, this particular error has to do with inconsistencies > > between the appstream metadata file name, the appstream ID name, and the > > desktop file name. > > > > In my experience, the following always resolves the issue. > > <snip> > > > 3. Use reverse DNS naming for the desktop file appended by .desktop. > > Hi Soren, > > Right. > It looks possible that my failure to rDNS the .desktop name > may be the issue with the package. > > What is tedious, > is that I cannot reproduce the problem locally, to check. > > UDD claims a lintian warning against the package > https://udd.debian.org/lintian/?packages=cevomapgen > > But if I run either ..validate-tree or lintian itself > against the .deb, no errors are shown.
I also don’t see any lintian tags when I run the following command with lintian from testing: lintian -iIE --pedantic My guess is that the factors for determining this tag have changed and that UDD is running either a newer or an older version of either lintian or "appstreamcli validate”. In the past, when I have dealt with this error I was able to reproduce it locally with lintian. If you want to make UDD happy you could upload a version with a corrected .desktop entry (it is recommended it use reverse DNS naming anyway). "The name of the desktop entry should follow the "reverse DNS" convention: it should start with a reversed DNS domain name controlled by the author of the application, in lower case.” https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest-single/#file-naming Similar language also exists for the AppStream file name and ID tag. https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html I think in the past the recommendation to use reverse DNS naming wasn’t as strong, which is why you see a lot of .desktop files that follow other patterns, especially for programs that have been around for a long time. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org
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