Lyx is listed as proprietary software in gnome software

[José Matos]

On Wed, 2022-12-14 at 13:13 +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> 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
> 

FWIW we install it manually in Fedora - lines 224-226
(https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/lyx/blob/rawhide/f/lyx.spec):
## appdata
	
install -p -D lib/appdata.xml
%{buildroot}%{_metainfodir}/lyx.appdata.xml

-- 
José Abílio