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<id>org.freedesktop.appstream.generator</id>
<name>AppStream Generator</name>
<summary>A fast AppStream metadata generator</summary>
<project_license>LGPL-3.0+</project_license>
<project_group>Freedesktop</project_group>
<description>
<p>
AppStream is a metadata specification which permits software components to provide information about themselves
to automated systems and end-users before the software is actually installed.
</p>
<p>
The <em>appstream-generator</em> tool generates AppStream metadata from the repositories of a software distribution.
It currently supports the following repository formats / distributions: Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, RPM-MD (Fedora, Mageia).
</p>
<p>
The generator will produce AppStream catalog metadata files in the AppStream YAML or XML format to be shipped
to users, as well as a detailed HTML report about found components and HTML and JSON reports on issues detected
with the scanned metadata. It reads .desktop files as well as metainfo files, renders fonts, scales images, caches
screenshots etc. to produce high-quality metadata for AppStream based software centers to consume.
Usually, <em>appstream-generator</em> is integrated with the existing software build & packaging workflow of
a distribution.
</p>
</description>
<pkgname>appstream-generator</pkgname>
<url type="homepage">https://github.com/ximion/appstream-generator</url>
<url type="bugtracker">https://github.com/ximion/appstream-generator/issues</url>
<url type="help">https://github.com/ximion/appstream-generator/blob/master/docs/index.md</url>
<provides>
<binary>appstream-generator</binary>
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<releases>
<release type="stable" version="0.10.1" timestamp="1759363200">
<description>
<p>This release adds the following features:</p>
<ul>
<li>engine: Limit default parallelism for main processing operations</li>
<li>Skip intermediate data check if gcid is empty</li>
<li>Print if data remains after manually removing a package</li>
<li>engine: Add function to process all suitable data at once</li>
</ul>
<p>This release fixes the following bugs:</p>
<ul>
<li>tests: Allow network test to have all tests skipped</li>
<li>utils: Just use C++ standard library for copying directories</li>
<li>Guard against null values in the database</li>
<li>zarchive: Properly normalize paths</li>
<li>yaml: Make sure Time field is always read as string</li>
<li>Explicitly set up UTF-8 locale</li>
<li>Ensure we aren't running on a bad libfyaml</li>
<li>engine: Actually open the locale unit, so it can be used to find locale</li>
<li>Don't just skip processing most new packages</li>
</ul>
<p>This release includes the following change:</p>
<ul>
<li>Update the snapcraft file</li>
</ul>
<p>With contributions from:</p>
<p>Matthias Klumpp</p>
</description>
</release>
<release type="stable" version="0.10.0" timestamp="1757980800">
<description>
<p>This release switches from using the D programming language to C++23. This change should simplify maintenance of the tool and allow it to be more compatible with other tooling. C++23 adopted a lot of D's features, so this is a pretty direct port - still, issues may exist even though this release has been tested extensively. So, perform your own tests and report any issues!</p>
<p>This release adds the following features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Translate the project from D to C++23</li>
<li>zarchive: Support reading from hardlinks</li>
<li>Use backward-cpp if available for automated crash backtraces</li>
<li>Add optimization for repeated reads from large archives</li>
<li>Add support for loading JPEG-XL icons</li>
</ul>
<p>This release fixes the following bugs:</p>
<ul>
<li>zarchive: Ensure parent path is created before opening file</li>
<li>debian: Ensure legacy-style repos get package descriptions for components</li>
<li>Create document timestamps in the right format</li>
<li>iconhandler: Render SVG with new API and properly report errors again</li>
</ul>
<p>This release includes the following changes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Add and enforce an npm lockfile</li>
<li>Avoid some unnecessary data copies and refcounting where possible</li>
</ul>
<p>With contributions from:</p>
<p>Joey Riches, LN Liberda, Matthias Klumpp</p>
</description>
</release>
<release type="stable" version="0.9.2" timestamp="1754956800">
<description>
<p>This release adds the following feature:</p>
<ul>
<li>data: Add tooltip hover for plot graph in section_pages.html</li>
</ul>
<p>This release fixes the following bugs:</p>
<ul>
<li>snap: Don't include our glib</li>
<li>freebsd backend: Start from meta.conf when gathering repository metadata</li>
<li>freebsd: catch up with new pkg repository layout</li>
<li>rpmmd: Port to dxml</li>
<li>rpmmd: Download packages on-demand</li>
<li>Sanitize UTF-8 before adding it to the database</li>
<li>Drop removed no-bin-links argument from yarn invocation</li>
</ul>
<p>This release includes the following changes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Add AdwaitaLegacy to themeNames</li>
<li>snap: Update some dependency versions</li>
<li>snap: Build using system LDC and glibd</li>
<li>Install JS stuff with NPM</li>
<li>metainfo: Add developer name</li>
</ul>
<p>With contributions from:</p>
<p>Amin Bandali, Balló György, Gleb Popov, Joey Riches,
Matthias Klumpp</p>
</description>
</release>
<release type="stable" version="0.9.1" timestamp="1699660800">
<description>
<p>This release adds the following features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Implement a FreeBSD backend</li>
<li>Add I/O caching for the FreeBSD backend</li>
<li>Allow to manually specify a GIR directory at build time</li>
<li>Include Yarn lockfile</li>
<li>Add release information to metainfo file</li>
<li>Build against AppStream 1.0</li>
</ul>
<p>This release fixes the following bugs:</p>
<ul>
<li>Make building the RPMMD backend optional</li>
<li>web: Better split archive sections</li>
<li>ubuntu: Don't fail on repositories with no language packs</li>
<li>utils: mkdirRecurse instead of mkdir inside parallel</li>
</ul>
<p>This release includes the following changes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Snap updates</li>
<li>Add documentation how to install from Flathub</li>
<li>Autoformat source code</li>
</ul>
<p>With contributions from:</p>
<p>Gleb Popov, Heather Ellsworth, Matthias Klumpp, Pablo Correa Gómez</p>
</description>
</release>
</releases>
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