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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have not seen any packaging scripts depend on it, if it does I think it
is fair for the package to be updated, but isn't it alreade handled by the
make install step?

fre. 29. nov. 2019 12.59 skrev Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>:

> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> Steve, I won't be changing anything about how the version information is
> generated, only adding a tag to the appdata file to contain the full
> version (this will be the same as the version that gets displayed in the
> help window, so it contains the distro-specific extra version as well).
>
> The main effect that this will have is that the kicad.appdata.xml file
> will no longer be directly available in the source package, and will only
> be available after CMake has been run. I wanted to make sure that this
> wouldn't break any packaging scripts (which I think it wouldn't).
>
> Carsten, thanks for pointing those changes out. I will update the file
> with them as well. Redoing the screenshots is also on my todo list (since
> they still show a v4 release currently). Do you know what the guidelines
> are for sizing of them? I see that the current ones are 1024x576, and I
> can't seem to find any information on the suggested size (other than that
> Fedora recommends they are 16:9).
>
> Thanks,
> -Ian
>
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 5:39 AM Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Ian,
>>
>> On 28.11.19 17:53, Ian McInerney wrote:
>> > I would like to change the way we generate the kicad.appdata.xml file to
>> > have it be generated by CMake and include the version string inside of
>> > it (that way the version will appear in the app stores and other places
>> > that reference this). I don't think this will cause any issues, but I
>> > just want to see if anyone sees any problems with this.
>>
>> this can't be a problem as the AppStream specification is holding a key
>> for versioning information. Please see section 4.1.2, <releases> ...
>> </releases>
>>
>> >
>> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Quickstart.html#sect-Quickstart-DesktopApps
>>
>> If you touch this all I'd suggest to update all URLs within the appdata
>> file as now the kicad-pcb.org domain is served by https.
>>
>> > $ git diff
>> > diff --git a/resources/linux/appdata/kicad.appdata.xml
>> b/resources/linux/appdata/kicad.appdata.xml
>> > index 2fc29f0c1..550cb10c5 100644
>> > --- a/resources/linux/appdata/kicad.appdata.xml
>> > +++ b/resources/linux/appdata/kicad.appdata.xml
>> > @@ -46,27 +46,27 @@
>> >
>> >    <screenshots>
>> >      <screenshot type="default">
>> > -      <image width="1024" height="576">
>> http://kicad-pcb.org/img/screenshots/appstream/kicad.png</image>
>> > +      <image width="1024" height="576">
>> https://kicad-pcb.org/img/screenshots/appstream/kicad.png</image>
>> >      </screenshot>
>> >
>> >      <screenshot>
>> >        <caption>Eeschema Schematic Editor</caption>
>> > -      <image width="1024" height="576">
>> http://kicad-pcb.org/img/screenshots/appstream/eeschema.png</image>
>> > +      <image width="1024" height="576">
>> https://kicad-pcb.org/img/screenshots/appstream/eeschema.png</image>
>> >      </screenshot>
>> >
>> >      <screenshot>
>> >        <caption>PcbNew PCB Layout</caption>
>> > -      <image width="1024" height="576">
>> http://kicad-pcb.org/img/screenshots/appstream/pcbnew.png</image>
>> > +      <image width="1024" height="576">
>> https://kicad-pcb.org/img/screenshots/appstream/pcbnew.png</image>
>> >      </screenshot>
>> >
>> >      <screenshot>
>> >        <caption>PcbNew 3D Viewer</caption>
>> > -      <image width="1024" height="576">
>> http://kicad-pcb.org/img/screenshots/appstream/3dviewer.png</image>
>> > +      <image width="1024" height="576">
>> https://kicad-pcb.org/img/screenshots/appstream/3dviewer.png</image>
>> >      </screenshot>
>> >    </screenshots>
>> >
>> > -  <url type="homepage">http://kicad-pcb.org/</url>
>> > -  <url type="bugtracker">http://kicad-pcb.org/help/report-a-bug/</url>
>> > +  <url type="homepage">https://kicad-pcb.org/</url>
>> > +  <url type="bugtracker">https://kicad-pcb.org/help/report-a-bug/
>> </url>
>> >    <update_contact>kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> </update_contact>
>> >    <developer_name>The KiCad Developers</developer_name>
>> >  </component>
>>
>> This reminds me that all the screenshots should be updated too. ;)
>>
>> The validator for the AppData content within the Debian QA is mentioning
>> that the component ID is not a reverse domain-name. Should get fixed too
>> in case the file is getting changed.
>>
>> > https://appstream.debian.org/sid/main/issues/kicad.html
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>> Carsten Schoenert
>>
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