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[Matthias Klumpp <matthias@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At this point, I think it's safe to say that implementing full multiarch support for AppStream simply isn't going to happen. It's simply better for app authors to provide native implementations for amd64 instead of relying on i386 compatibility.
If support was implemented fully, we would download lots of additional big metadata and run into all kinds of troubles of which app gets selected when there are conflicts.
Resolving all of these issues is possible, but the huge effort IMHO doesn't justify the gains.

There is a workaround for high-profile packages that are only available
on one architecture: *If* i386 support is enabled by default, the
appstream-generator tool can be instructed to inject metadata for a
specific package directly into the final metadata collection. See
https://github.com/ximion/appstream-generator/blob/master/docs/asgen-
config.md#injecting-extra-metainfo--removing-components for details.
This is intended to be used for web applications, but may work for this
case as well. Steam may be important enough for that exception. The
final decision is up to Ubuntu and the metadata generator admins though.

** Changed in: appstream (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Opinion

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Title:
  Gnome Software catalog entry missing for Steam except on i386

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Confirmed
Status in appstream package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion
Status in appstream-dep11 package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in steam package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in appstream source package in Xenial:
  Confirmed
Status in steam source package in Xenial:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  A very beautiful app, but is missing in the Gnome-Software catalog!!!
  You can install it from terminal and then it appears in Gnome-software but if you search for it in gnome-software first you can´t install it.

  It shows up in Ubuntu 'i386' but not Ubuntu 'amd64'.

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