Metadata in extras (was Re: [VOTE] extra music scopes for Oneiric)

[Stéphane Graber]

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On 04/16/2012 09:07 AM, David Planella wrote:
> Al 15/04/12 04:14, En/na Allison Randal ha escrit:
>> On 04/12/2012 06:02 PM, Allison Randal wrote:
>>> 
>>> +1 from me too, which gives us 3. So, publishing it now...
>> 
>> The music scopes are still not appearing in the Software Center,
>> even though they were successfully built and published in the
>> Extras PPA on the 12th. How do we access error logs from the
>> automated process that copies packages over from the PPA to the
>> live archive?
>> 
>> The only thing I can think of that's different than previous
>> packages (and so might cause a problem) is that the music scopes
>> have a separate icon for each scope, so it adds 4 icons to the
>> raw-meta-data in override_dh_gencontrol. If no-one has other
>> ideas, I'll try releasing a new version of the package with only
>> one icon in raw-meta-data.
>> 
>> Allison
>> 
> 
> This reminds me of a question I wanted to ask a while ago: I
> understand that metadata in extras.u.c is handled differently than
> in the main archive. In a conversation with Anthony, from the
> Server Team in Consumer Apps, it seems this makes it a bit trickier
> for ARB apps to appear in apps.ubuntu.com (they are not there
> yet).
> 
> I imagine as well that the metadata is perhaps stored differently
> due to historical reasons. In any case,
> 
> - Would it be possible to bring the structure of extras.u.c closer
> to archive.u.c in order not make it easier for ARB apps to appear
> in apps.ubuntu.com? - If so, who's the best person to talk to about
> this subject?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Cheers, David.

Hi David,

The reason why we're storing the metadata directly in debian/control
is because MyApps/Software-Center, last I checked were still buggy and
wouldn't let us publish an app entirely without it showing up as
commercial.

Once SC/MyApps do the right thing, we'll be able to drop all of these
and the entries will show up with whatever the uploaded put into MyApps.


This was supposed to be an easy bugfix + SRU that would just take a
few days, yet it's been since January and it's still not done (or we
weren't told that it's all done now).

- -- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com
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