Bug#954834: Add a debhelper sequence that generate and install a NEWS file from appdata file

[Laurent Bigonville]

Package: appstream
Version: 0.12.10-2
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

Would be nice to have a debhelper sequence that generate and install a
NEWS file from appdata file during the build of the package

The sequences would run at the end of the build on all package, check if
there is an appdata file (and no pre-existing NEWS file installed) and
generate one using `appstreamcli metainfo-to-news`

What do you think?

Kind regards,

Laurent Bigonville

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_BE:fr (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: SELinux: enabled - Mode: Permissive - Policy name: refpolicy

Versions of packages appstream depends on:
ii  libappstream4     0.12.10-2
ii  libc6             2.30-2
ii  libglib2.0-0      2.64.1-1
ii  shared-mime-info  1.10-1

appstream recommends no packages.

Versions of packages appstream suggests:
ii  apt-config-icons  0.12.10-2

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