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Lohit: Add appstream metadata
It would be great if we could add appstream metadata for all the Lohit fonts.
I see that you added apsptream metadata directly in the Fedora packaging but appstream is used by many other distros and it seems a lot of work for every distro to have to do that individually.
I believe CC0 is now by far the most commonly used license for appstream metadata.
I tried to use the reverse-DNS naming convention from the appstream specification, but I don't think that's mandatory. So you can probably drop the io.pagure prefix if you don't like it.
As long as you don't need to support pre-2016 appstream, the preferred install location has changed to /usr/share/metainfo/
Example file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<component type="font">
<id>io.pagure.lohit.assamese.font</id>
<metadata_license>CC0-1.0</metadata_license>
<name>Lohit Assamese</name>
<summary>Font for the Assamese language</summary>
<description>
<p>
The Lohit Assamese font is a font with glyphs for the Assamese
language. Assamese is one of India’s 23 official languages.
</p>
<p>
This font is part of the Lohit font family, a set of fonts for
Indic languages originally created by Modular Infotech and
now maintained by Red Hat. Lohit means “red” in Sanskrit.
</p>
</description>
<url type="homepage">https://pagure.io/lohit</url>
<url type="bugtracker">https://github.com/pravins/lohit/issues</url>
<updatecontact>psatpute_at_redhat_dot_com</updatecontact>
</component>
On 16 March 2017 at 01:24, Jeremy Bicha [email protected] wrote:
It would be great if we could add appstream metadata for all the Lohit fonts.
I see that you added apsptream metadata directly in the Fedora packaging but appstream is used by many other distros and it seems a lot of work for every distro to have to do that individually.
I believe CC0 is now by far the most commonly used license for appstream metadata.
Make sense to me. Will add this to upstream. Thanks for bringing this up.
I tried to use the reverse-DNS naming convention from the appstream specification, but I don't think that's mandatory. So you can probably drop the io.pagure prefix if you don't like it.
As long as you don't need to support pre-2016 appstream, the preferred install location has changed to /usr/share/metainfo/
We always try to keep upstream and downstream separate. I think as a upstream lets add aapstream metadata file in release tarball and then lets distr decide where they want to add.
I will work on this most probably next week.
Thanks Pravin
Example file
io.pagure.lohit.assamese.font CC0-1.0 Lohit Assamese Font for the Assamese language The Lohit Assamese font is a font with glyphs for the Assamese language. Assamese is one of India’s 23 official languages.
This font is part of the Lohit font family, a set of fonts for Indic languages originally created by Modular Infotech and now maintained by Red Hat. Lohit means “red” in Sanskrit.
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Fixes with https://github.com/pravins/lohit/commit/f77c18d1a661a8c8f7a0cfbc7da31b9d57e05522 Let me know if anything missing