[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#882375: Thanks

[nodens]

Control: tags -1 + help + upstream - patch
Thanks

Hi,

Le 28/01/2025 à 00:14, asciiwolf at seznam.cz a écrit :
> Is there any chance this issue could be resolved (the AppStream metadata file added and installed into /usr/share/metainfo/)?
>
> Another 4 years have passed without any progress and the OTR plugin for Pidgin is still not user-installable via the GUI because of this.
>
>
Sorry about that. Actually, it had been added, then removed because it 
was buggy:
https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-privacy-team/pidgin-otr/-/commit/109f73cd8db324c53ba32c95172b1caf2feeade1

(and that's why I'm removing the patch tag).

We could ignore the warnings, I guess, though it gets worse now because 
even the upstream website links to code and bug report are dead.

However the cid-is-not-rdns error would cause the metadata to be ignored 
by appstream.debian.org anyway. I see the app-id is unchanged in Fedora 
(which is the source of this metadata).

AFAIU, upstream should provide the metadata, so I'd forward the request 
upstream if I knew how to contact them when the bug report page has been 
down for month. Changing the app-id only in Debian would probably be 
against the principle of appstream metadata.

That said. I would appreciate help on this issue, since I'm not really 
familiar with Appstream.

Thanks!

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nodens