Bug#981175: freecad: when installed with Gnome Software, only `freecad-common` package is installed

[Yvan Masson]

Hi,

I could took a few minute to try to understand this issue.

According to the Debian wiki about AppStream [1], Gnome Software indeed 
uses AppStream to find Debian packages. The next chapter [2] explains 
what should be done, and I have spotted to issues with FreeCAD:
- the .metainfo file should be part of the freecad package, not 
freecad-common
- the .metainfo file should be placed in /usr/share/metainfo/ and not 
/usr/share/freecad/share/metainfo
- the .metainfo file should be part of the same package as the .desktop 
file, so the .desktop file should be moved from freecad-common to freecad

As I told, my understanding of this topic is very basic, so I might be 
wrong.

Regards,
Yvan

1. https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines#Finding_information
2. https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines#General

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