Bug 2207990

Summary:	Correct content of fedora-popular.xml/fedora-categories.xml files
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Milan Crha <mcrha>
Component:	appstream-data	Assignee:	Richard Hughes <rhughes>
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Description Milan Crha 2023-05-17 14:22:33 UTC

There are installed files:

   fedora-popular.xml
   fedora-categories.xml

into 

   /usr/share/app-info/xmls/

and they currently contain 

   <component type="desktop">

components, but it's wrong, it should rather read:

   <component merge="append">

. The difference is that the former pretends to be an application definition, while the later says to merge the added properties into the applications, if they exist.

This misinterpretation influences counts of the apps in the categories in the gnome-software.

Related upstream discussion:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/2053#note_1747018

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Aoife Moloney 2024-05-22 11:04:52 UTC

Fedora Linux 38 entered end-of-life (EOL) status on 2024-05-21.

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Comment 2 Milan Crha 2024-05-22 11:22:23 UTC

This is still true, the files only moved to /usr/share/swcatalog/xml/.

Comment 3 Richard Hughes 2024-05-22 11:32:07 UTC

commit 695edaa4e889b0247424920011c1d38c324207c9 (HEAD -> main)
Author: Richard Hughes <richard>
Date:   Wed May 22 12:31:28 2024 +0100

    Use a merge type of append
    
    Fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2207990

-- I'll build the metadata with that next week.