On Debian evince is at least listed, so I'm not sure why that doesn't work for us and I think it should (but see the next paragraph).
I think there's a second bug, besides it not being listed, that it will try to install evince-common because that's what appstream says the package is for evince.desktop. I wonder if the generator could do something about that like search for the Exec= binary - ximion? This is broken on Debian too FYI: if you remove and re-install evince then you only get evince-common. Moving the .desktop file would be a valid fix but will only fix this case. > laney@nightingale> appstreamcli search evince.desktop > Identifier: evince.desktop [desktop] > Name: Evince > Summary: View multi-page documents > Package: evince-common > Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince > Icon: evince-common_evince.png The evince-* entries are metainfo files (not .appdata) that I think describe the different types of files that Evince can show. They aren't applications and so shouldn't be influencing the top-level list, instead being shown as sub entries in Evince's. https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1553156 Title: evince not listed Status in appstream-glib package in Ubuntu: New Status in evince package in Ubuntu: New Status in gnome-software package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Using current xenial, evince is not listed in gnome-software. The log states it's of unknow application type ... could it come from the fact that the .desktop is in the -common binary? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appstream-glib/+bug/1553156/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
