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.
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