Bug#1012819: gnome-software: When installing freecad via gnome-software, the freecad-common package is installed instead of freecad

[Jeremy Bicha]

Control: reassign -1 src:freecad 0.19.4+dfsg1-1
Control: severity -1 important

On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 3:21 PM Eugen Wintersberger
<eugen.wintersberger at gmail.com> wrote:
>   when I install freecad via gnome-software the freecad-common package instead
> of the freecad package is installed. Therefore, a user cannot run freecad when
> installed with gnome-software.

This is not a bug in gnome-software but a bug in the freecad
packaging. The freecad package needs to install the .desktop and the
AppStream metadata file, not freecad-common. The maintainer will need
to use Breaks/Replaces in debian/control to move files from one
package to another.

https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines#General
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#overwriting-files-in-other-packages

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha