Lyx is listed as proprietary software in gnome software

[Pavel Sanda]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 04:42:26PM +0000, José Matos wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-12-13 at 17:40 +0100, Lorenzo Bertini wrote:
> > Yes sorry, I was in a rush. I'm on Debian testing (11) with Gnome 43.
> > Searching a bit I found that this is indeed a somewhat common
> > packaging 
> > problem and I should contact the maintainer. Thanks anyway
> 
> Glad to know that (that the problem is known, not that you are busy).
> Thanks for letting us know.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1026039 :

>> The GNOME Software app prefers to use AppStream metadata.
>> 
>> https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines
>> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html
>
>Ok, then this should be fixed in 2.4 series (cd5d1be8f8925) as org.lyx.LyX.metainfo.xml
>will be installed in /usr/share/metainfo/.
>
>For 2.3.x series appdata.xml (in old format) is inside tarball but not installed.

cf
https://git.lyx.org/?p=lyx.git;a=commitdiff;h=cd5d1be8f8925b1057af5eca8ebe6377f9cac9e3
https://git.lyx.org/?p=lyx.git;a=commitdiff;h=837791c5ef4daab5b3244c4afbd9adf0dbbfb5a2

Pavel