Matthias Klumpp

Patches welcome ;-) Ideally Snowball would just ship a pkg-config file, but annoyingly it doesn't.

> Please don't take anything herein as a criticism, I am just exploring ways we could work more closely together in the FLOSS app metadata space to improve user outcomes....

> Validator changes also give Flathub a hard time! I was admittedly watching this with some excitement as well as concern ^^ - Flatpak-builder switched to `appstreamcli` finally, from using...

Oh, tl;dr: We should make a list of people that are interested in reviewing changes, so I can ping them. Would also be interesting to know if someone was also...

> The main problem is `flatpak` tries to target fairly old systems where libappstream will be quite outdated, but it could land in a future version at least. I usually...

Yeah, SPDX has changed this so many times though that I am a bit burned by having to play catch-up with license name changes, and I don't want to inflict...

> GNOME Software ( and possibly others ) rely a lot on the date / timestamp provided in the `` tag. Values in the future are clearly wrong, and they...

We can potentially ignore the `date` requirement if the release `type` is `snapshot`, so if that is set, people can just leave out the date and add it once the...

Of course we could provide a Docker container, but TBH, using the Flatpak would be way less "heavy"... In the past there was a PPA with up-to-date AppStream, that would...

I agree, sorry for the delayed response! (I am very preoccupied at the moment) We could make this an info hint, like with component-IDs, but TBH I think the better...