Ok, FFe request approved - but please, before pushing it to the
archives, I would like to request rebuilding the package in your PPA
with all arches enabled and do some upgrade testing from the existing
Ubuntu 0.11.8-3 package. If all looks good, please sync it from Debian.
I think packages already in PPA need to be rebuilt if one enabled new
architectures in the given PPA. Just a no-change bump should be enough.
Thanks!
** Changed in: appstream (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
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Title:
FFE: Sync appstream 0.12.0-3 (main) from Debian unstable (main)
Status in appstream package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Please sync appstream 0.12.0-3 (main) from Debian unstable (main)
This introduces a new feature release pretty late in the cycle, so it
is something to more carefully consider. Even if it's very late, I do
think upgrading this package in Bionic is a good idea though.
First of all, it makes upgrading the appstream-generator package to version
0.7.1-3 possible, allowing people to generate much better and smaller metadata
for Debian and Ubuntu repositories (and this is what sparked the creation of
this sync request).
But there are also many other good reasons.
This is the NEWS file for the new release, with explanations on why we
want the respective changes (I shuffled some entries around to form
logical groups) :
Version 0.12.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2018-04-04
Features:
* Implement release types
* qt: Support release types
This adds a new feature to the AppStream specification and
libappstream that allows release metadata to be tagged as
"development" or "stable" releases. Nothing in Ubuntu uses this, so
adding will not break anything, but having this in the LTS release
means upstream projects can use this feature more easily, and Ubuntu
will understand metadata containing it.
* Update static data lists
* spdx: Add some compatibility workarounds for SPDX 3.0
* validator: Validate SPDX license expressions for metadata_license
This updates the SPDX[1] license lists to version 3.0 and adds some
compatibility glue to libappstream to parse the new license strings introduced
in SPDX 3.0. This is very useful to have, because many projects will start
using the new identifier, and it makes sense for AppStream in Ubuntu to be
ready for that.
Furthermore, it prevents errors from people using the new IDs with older
AppStream versions (unfortunately, SPDX 3.0 broke the format, AppStream speaks
all flavors of SPDX now, though)
[1]: https://spdx.org/licenses/
* apt: Add config snippets to enable icon downloads
This results in an easy way for users as well as software centers to
enable the download of application icon tarballs via APT just by
installing a sepecific package (apt-icons-*). This is quite neat to
make icon downloads configurable easily, and also have a central place
for the APT configuration. The new packages are used in Debian already
by GNOME Software and Plasma Dicover. All existing solutions to enable
icons work though, this is an optional change.
* Implement support for requires/recommends
* Add recommends/requires data to the cache
* Add a quick way to check if a version satisfies an AsRelation requirement
* yaml: Make Requires/Recommends data more compact and easier to emit
* Default to format version 0.12
* validator: Validate requires/recommends tags
This adds a new feature to allow AppStream components to require other
components or system resources (e.g. minimal memory sizes). Nothing
uses this yet, due to that this feature also can't break anything.
Having it in the LTS means that upstream projects can already add the
metadata easily though and have it validated.
* ascli: Properly document the --no-net flag
* ascli: Allow to disable network access via an environment variable
This is useful in a package build environment where AppStream metadata is
validated and the distributor wants to make sure appstreamcli doesn't try to
access the network without changing upstream's code and passing the --no-net
flag explicitly somewhere.
Nice feature to have, no risk potential to break existing code.
* Make as_str_replace use as_gstring_replace internally
* yaml: Ensure all string values have whitespaces stripped
* Make as_component_get_launchables public API
* apt: Support 48x48px icons
This are miscellaneous improvements which should not cause any issue
at all. The 48x48px icons are used in some software centers, having
them can be useful (this was a feature requested by Elementary, so
chances are they will use these icons at some point).
Specification:
* spec: Add a "type" property to <release/> tag
* spec: Initial draft for requires/recommends
* spec: Document the YAML Rquires/Recommends fields
* spec: Clarify that the memory requirement uses MiB as unit
This improve the AppStream specification or extend it. It's just
documentation changes.
Bugfixes:
* qt: Implement missing constructors
This fixes some nasty crashes in Qt applications using AppStream, like
Plasma Discover.
* apt: escape the icon scale factor as it is using the arobase
character
This fixes a bug which basically rendered HiDPI icons completely
useless in AppStream under Debian/Ubuntu. Having this fix will make
the use of HiDPI icons in software centers possible.
* Check plain language string in as_component_localized_get as well
Apparently, in some circumstances text was not properly localized due to that
because the function did not check the language code alone after failing to
find a localized string for the locale.
Improved localization is a good thing.
* qt: Define location and soname for all configurations, not just
Debug
This patch has been in Ubuntu before. Without it, Qt applications
using AppStream wouldn't build at all in release mode.
* Never override high-quality data with incomplete .desktop data
Fixes an issue that would override more complete metadata with less
complete versions and also change the metadata after the user
installed an application.
* Make data update script work with recent SPDX
Just a maintenance improvement on the source code itself with no
impact on the installed binaries and data.
* Add a timeout to URL validity checks
Before, appstreamcli would just hang forever when validating on
systems with no network access, causing some annoyances especially on
CI systems.
The package is not causing issues in Debian and other distributions, so far
there have been no new bug reports. In general, I think the risk of new issues
is low, especially because the new features don't impact the existing common
code paths much and are additions (although obviously there is no such thing as
no regressions risk).
I think the bugfixes especially on HiDPI icons and metadata replacement, as
well as features like the updated SPDX license library and SPDX 3.0 support and
that updating this package allows for a more recent appstream-generator package
to be included make it reasonable to update the package.
Changelog entries since current bionic version 0.11.8-3:
appstream (0.12.0-3) unstable; urgency=medium
* load-desktop-data.patch: Load desktop file data properly again
-- Matthias Klumpp <[email protected]> Fri, 06 Apr 2018 21:30:08 +0200
appstream (0.12.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium
* Make autopkgtest work again
* Update d/copyright (Closes: #894856)
* icon config: Pull in non-HiDPI config for large icons
if large-icon HiDPI config is installed
-- Matthias Klumpp <[email protected]> Fri, 06 Apr 2018 14:12:26 +0200
appstream (0.12.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* New upstream version: 0.12.0
* Drop all patches: Applied upstream
* Update .symbols file
* d/rules: Drop obsolete --parallel flag
* Add APT config snippet packages for an easy way of enabling
icon downloads for different sizes and HiDPI.
-- Matthias Klumpp <[email protected]> Wed, 04 Apr 2018 18:36:26 +0200
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