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Posted onMarch 16, 2020March 16, 2020Debian

Maintain release info easily in MetaInfo/Appdata files

This article isn’t about anything “new”, like the previous ones on AppStream – it rather exists to shine the spotlight on a feature I feel…

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Posted onMarch 7, 2020March 7, 2020Debian

Introducing the MetaInfo Creator

This year’s FOSDEM conference was a lot of fun – one of the things I always enjoy most about this particular conference (besides having some…

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Posted onJanuary 27, 2020January 27, 2020Debian

A big AppStream status update

It has been a while since the last AppStream-related post (or any post for that matter) on this blog, but of course development didn’t stand…

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Posted onSeptember 28, 2017September 28, 2017Debian

Adding fonts to software centers

Last year, the AppStream specification gained proper support for adding metadata for fonts, after Richard Hughes did some work on it years ago. We weren’t…

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Posted onApril 4, 2017September 28, 2017Debian

About Tanglu…

It’s time for a long-overdue blogpost about the status of Tanglu. Tanglu is a Debian derivative, started in early 2013 when the systemd debate at…

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Posted onJune 17, 2016June 17, 2016Debian

A few words about the future of the Limba project

I wanted to write this blogpost since April, and even announced it in two previous posts, but never got to actually write it until now.…

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Posted onMay 6, 2016May 17, 2016Debian

Adventures in D programming

I recently wrote a bigger project in the D programming language, the appstream-generator (asgen). Since I rarely leave the C/C++/Python realm, and came to like…

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Posted onApril 26, 2016April 26, 2016Debian

Why are AppStream metainfo files XML data?

This is a question raised quite quite often, the last time in a blogpost by Thomas, so I thought it is a good idea to…

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Posted onApril 26, 2016April 26, 2016Debian

A GNOME Software Hackfest report

Two weeks ago was the GNOME Software hackfest in London, and I’ve been there! And I just now found the time to blog about it,…

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Posted onApril 16, 2016April 26, 2016Debian

Introducing AppStream-Generator

Since mid-2015 we were using the dep11-generator in Debian to build AppStream metadata about available software components in the distribution. Getting rid of dep11-generator Unfortunately,…

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