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`app-id` recommendation conflict with Flathub documentation
The official Flatpak docs have the following in its list of "examples of bad IDs" on this page:
com.github.foo.Bar
While a project may be hosted on GitHub it does not have any control over the
github.com
domain. Instead you should useio.github
as shown above.
The elementary packaging documentation gives the following instructions:
Create a
com.github.yourusername.yourrepositoryname.yml
file in your project root with the following contents:
The elementary documentation recommends a practice which the Flatpak documentation explicitly lists as bad practice.
Suggested solutions
- Make it recommend
io.github
instead ofcom.github
. - Add a section explaining why using
com.github
isn't actually bad practice like it says in the Flatpak documentation.