[Pkg-fonts-devel] Adding AppStream metainfo files for fonts

[Paul Wise]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 6:13 AM, Matthias Klumpp wrote:

> The spec is already updated and I ran this by a few people who like
> the way it is documented now, so this is pretty much the final
> solution and won't change anymore. Also, I already implemented the
> changes in the AppStream generator, the AppStream libraries support
> the metadata already.
>
> See https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/sect-Metadata-Fonts.html

Looks good.

> I also tried again to auto-generate metainfo files for fonts (grouping
> them by family and synthesizing a unique ID), but that really always
> ends up in a huge mess of duplication and confusion. It works for 80%
> of all cases, but that's not good enough.
>
> So, we will unfortunately really need font packages to ship at least a
> small bit of XML, like Fedora does, in order to make the fonts known
> to AppStream.

Seems unlikely to happen unless it can be fully automated.

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