Bug 400999

Summary:	kpackage implicitly pulled in and never reported on
Product:	[Applications] kirigami gallery	Reporter:	Harald Sitter <sitter>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Marco Martin <notmart>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Harald Sitter 2018-11-13 09:59:04 UTC

The cmakelists contains the following:

> find_program(kpackagetool_cmd kpackagetool5)

The result of this is not ever recorded in the summary. This makes it entirely in-obvious to distributions why appdata is not present for the tool (seeing as cmake never complains that kpackagetool is missing)

It's also always 100% less accurate than what the actual kpackage cmake targets would do, as those will always import the correct path it was installed to, not any old binary it may find in $PATH (which may be rubbish or broken).

As a solution I suggest to write the appdata manually and throw kpackagetool out the window. Notably kpackagetool won't know that this is in application, and as application its appdata should have a launchable key. Also see bug 400998 which mentions that no appdata file is also an approach; albeit resulting in less quality appdata.

Comment 1 Justin Zobel 2022-12-03 09:01:28 UTC

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If you can reproduce the issue, please change the status to "REPORTED" when replying. Thank you!

Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2022-12-18 05:15:08 UTC

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Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2023-01-02 05:29:12 UTC

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

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