The appstream-generator (https://github.com/ximion/appstream-generator) uses the 'md5sums' file present in .deb archives to retrieve the list of contents, and this file doesn't contain information for symlinks - that's why the icon can't be found. It does that for speed, since reading the contents from the actual data.tar.gz/xz would require reading the entire file and that would be too slow.
So the patch to read the symlink would be technically easy, but I don't think it would be accepted. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1639863 Title: Firefox and Thunderbird don't appear in the (new) appstream metadata To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1639863/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
