[Bug 1081504] Re: Extras apps do not use the provided icon

[David Planella]

Al 03/12/12 12:57, En/na Michael Nelson ha escrit:
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:11 PM, David Planella
> <david.planella at ubuntu.com>wrote:
> 
>>
>> However, I'm not too sure this bug is invalid, as I can see several
>> other entries without icon right now:
>>
>> https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/unity-lens-vm/
>>  <https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/cuckoo/>
> 
> 
> That's not published in quantal on myapps, but is in extras, so apps.u.c
> doesn't import any extra data. You can see the correct icon using the
> precise url:
> 
> https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/precise/unity-lens-vm/
> 
> Publishing the app for quantal in myapps will allow apps.u.c to import the
> extra data for quantal also.
> 
> https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/cuckoo/
> 
> 
> ditto - the precise version has the extra data, quantal doesn't as it's not
> published in myapps.
> 
> 
>>
>> https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/unity-lens-github/
>>
>>
> I actually see the reverse for this one - it's published in myapps for
> quantal, and so has the extra data, but if I look at the precise version
> it's missing it (and checking sca [1] shows it's not currently published in
> precise).
> 
> So currently you'll need to publish the app in devportal for all the
> distroseries for which the extra information should be present (ie. all the
> series for which it is published in extras). We could and probably should
> treat apps imported from sca as special in this regard, so that if an app
> is imported from sca, the extra resources (icons/screenshots etc) will be
> used by default if there are non present from the apt-cache or
> app-install-data. I'll leave that for achuni to decide.
> 
> Hope that helps!
> 
> [1]
> http://software-center.ubuntu.com/api/2.0/applications/en/ubuntu/precise/i386/
> 

I believe that the problem is that the devportal does not allow
re-publishing apps. That is, if an application is in Published state, it
cannot be modified, as far as I can tell.

I assume that's why all those apps were published through the devportal
in one release, and subsequently through extras directly.

So I've got two questions:

- Shall I open a separate bug for that?
- Would it be possible to manually fix the metadata if the bug proves to
be too complex to fix?

Cheers,
David.

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Title:
  Extras apps do not use the provided icon

Status in Ubuntu web catalog:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  This is a follow-up from bug 1010655, as one of the issues pointed out
  there is still not fixed.

  For apps published in extras.ubuntu.com, the icon provided by the
  developer seems not to be used, which causes Software Center to use a
  generic icon for the app upon installation.

  Here's an example of a recent upload (see the generic icon used instead of the 64px one provided [1]):
  https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/postman-image-uploader/

  [1] https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/dev/apps/1612/

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