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hughsie
validate fails on mailto link in contact url
On a metainfo file with
<url type="contact">mailto:[email protected]</url>
one gets an error
app.metainfo.xml: FAILED:
• tag-invalid : <url> does not start with 'http://' [mailto:[email protected]]
Validation of files failed
According to https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-url urls of the contact type allow for mailto links.
contact URLs of this type should allow the user to contact the developer. This could be an email address (mailto link), a webpage (e.g. an online form or a page describing how to contact the developer) or some other valid URL.
@hughsie I am very inclined to drop the mailto: / email address thing from the spec. It's not really useful anymore in a time where most people use webmailers and quite awkward in software centers when user expect a link and then their email program opens. Also, people can still link a webpage which contains their email address.
Fun fact: I think even appstreamcli won't validate this at the moment ^^
