[Bug 1663695] Re: Kubuntu 16.04.1 discover empty after fresh install

[Brian Murray]

Hello Damien, or anyone else affected,

Accepted appstream into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appstream/0.9.4-1ubuntu3 in a few
hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Changed in: appstream (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

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Title:
  Kubuntu 16.04.1 discover empty after fresh install

Status in appstream package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in packagekit package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in plasma-discover package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in appstream source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in packagekit source package in Xenial:
  Invalid
Status in plasma-discover source package in Xenial:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * A previous update made AppStream use modern-style component-ids, thereby breaking the Qt library if it is reading data from the cache and if that data happens to be a desktop-application.
   * This leads to KDE's Discover not displaying applications.
   * The issue was introduced by a patch to the Xenial version of AppStream, and is not present in any other version of the package in Ubuntu, affecting Xenial only.

  [Test Case 1]

   * Update the libappstream-qt package, run Discover: All apps should
  be loaded correctly.

  [Regression Potential]

   * Low, this change affects only the Qt bindings and nothing else. The
  change is also a simple string value change.

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