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Bug 2097538

Summary:	Screenhots in appdata reference 'master', while upstream changed the branch name to 'main'
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Reporter:	Peter Stone <fedora-topics-562353>
Component:	appstream-data	Assignee:	Richard Hughes <rhughes>
Status:	CLOSED MIGRATED	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	unspecified	CC:	klember, mcatanza, rhughes, tpopela
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Description Peter Stone 2022-06-15 22:11:58 UTC

Description of problem: There's some applications, like Evince, or Disk Usage Analyzer, where placeholder screenshots are shown instead of ones from the respective applications.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-software 41.4, up to date RHEL 9.


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. open Software, go to Installed
2. choose Evince or Disk Usage Analyzer
3. observe that instead of expected screenshots from these programs, placeholders are shown

Actual results: placeholder image shown

Expected results: screenshots from the application to be shown

Additional info:
Machine where this occurs is connected to the Internet, is registered for updates and regular updates succeed.

Comment 1 Milan Crha 2022-06-16 06:24:41 UTC

Thanks for a bug report. It's a problem in the appstream data of the respective applications. I'll move this to the evince, open a bug to other apps as needed.

When you run gnome-software with its verbose debug mode:

   $ gnome-software --quit; gnome-software --verbose

and search for the evince and then select it, you'll see something like this:

   06:17:32:0986 Gs  Result of screenshot downloading attempt with status code '404': Not Found
   06:17:33:0046 Gs  Result of screenshot downloading attempt with status code '404': Not Found

and several lines above:

   screenshot-00:       https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/raw/master/data/screenshots/evince-1.png [<none>]
   screenshot-01:       https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/raw/master/data/screenshots/evince-2.png [<none>]

The problem is that the evince upstream renamed its `master` branch to the `main` branch, which is not reflected in the RHEL appstream data. When I change the path it finds the screenshots.

Such change might need to update RHEL package with the appstream data, I think.

Comment 2 Tomas Popela 2022-06-16 11:19:08 UTC

I suspect that more applications renamed their branch from master to main in GNOME. Michael do you have a way to find what repositories in GNOME moved from using master to main so we can look if something needs to be changed? Another option would be to ask QE to go through the applications that we have in RHEL and see whether they have screenshots available.

Comment 3 Michael Catanzaro 2022-06-16 17:18:20 UTC

(In reply to Tomas Popela from comment #2)
> I suspect that more applications renamed their branch from master to main in
> GNOME. Michael do you have a way to find what repositories in GNOME moved
> from using master to main so we can look if something needs to be changed?

Definitely not. I could only tell you about core applications tracked by release team. RHEL has way more applications than that. We need to keep up with all applications in RHEL.

It's expected that applications that delete their master branch will not have any screenshots until RHEL 10 if they stored screenshots on the master branch, which was/is best practice. That's just a predictable consequence of the ongoing branch name sabotage. As applications continue to switch branch names, more and more screenshots will disappear over time, so it's something that has to be actively kept up with. Suffice to say I'm glad I'm not maintaining our appstream data right now.

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2023-09-17 14:51:55 UTC

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