I'm not familiar with the generator code (I don't even know where it lives to be honest). How hard would it be to make it understand symlinks? (I'm not opposed to implementing Laney's suggestion though, I just want to get a better understanding of the problem).
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1639863 Title: Firefox and Thunderbird don't appear in the (new) appstream metadata Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The new generator doesn't understand symlinks unfortunately, so Firefox and Thunderbird don't appear. http://appstream.staging.ubuntu.com/zesty/main/issues/firefox.html laney@nightingale> ls /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox.png lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Oct 25 15:34 /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox.png -> ../../lib/firefox/browser/icons/mozicon128.png To make them work, /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox.png should be a real file. It could either be a copy of the file, or /usr/lib/firefox/browser/icons/mozicon128.png could be a symlink. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1639863/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
