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Debian AppStream DEP-11 tools

IMPORTANT: This module will be replaced by appstream-generator soon, please submit improvements and issues there, so we can address them at the new codebase.

This Python module allows you to generate and validate DEP-11 metadata, which is Debians implementation of AppStream. The tools can be used standalone, or be integrated with other services.

You can find out more about DEP-11 YAML at the Debian Wiki, and more about AppStream distro metadata at Freedesktop.

Dependencies

In order to use AppStream-DEP11, the following components are needed:

  • Python 3 (ideally >> 3.4.3)
  • GIR for RSvg-2.0
  • python-apt
  • python-cairo
  • python-gi
  • Jinja2
  • python-lmdb
  • python-lxml
  • python-pil
  • Matplotlib
  • Voluptuous
  • PyYAML
  • Pygments (optional)

To install all dependencies on Debian systems, use

sudo apt install gir1.2-rsvg-2.0 python3-apt python3-cairo python3-gi python3-jinja2 python3-lmdb \
    python3-gi-cairo python3-lxml python3-pil python3-voluptuous python3-yaml python3-matplotlib python3-pygments

How to use

Generating distro metadata

To generate AppStream distribution metadata for your repository, create a local mirror of the repository first. Then create a new folder, and write a dep11-config.yml configuration file for the metadata generator. A minimal configuration file may look like this:

ArchiveRoot: /srv/archive.tanglu.org/tanglu/
MediaBaseUrl: http://metadata.tanglu.org/dep11/media
HtmlBaseUrl: http://metadata.tanglu.org/dep11/hints_html/
Suites:
  chromodoris:
    components:
      - main
      - contrib
    architectures:
      - amd64
      - i386
  chromodoris-updates:
    dataPriority: 10
    components:
      - main
      - contrib
    architectures:
      - amd64
      - i386
Key Comment
ArchiveRoot A local URL to the mirror of your archive, containing the dists/ and pool/ directories
MediaBaseUrl The http or https URL which should be used in the generated metadata to fetch media like screenshots or icons
HtmlBaseUrl The http or https URL to the web location where the HTML hints will be published. (This setting is optional, but recommended)
Suites A list of suites which should be recognized by the generator. Each suite has the components and architectures which should be seached for metadata as children. If baseSuite is set, the 'main' component of that suite is also considered for providing icon data for packages in this suite.

After the config file has been written, you can generate the metadata as follows:

cd /srv/dep11/workspace # path where the dep11-config.yml file is located
dep11-generator process . chromodoris # replace "chromodoris" with the name of the suite you want to analyze

The generator is assuming you have enough memory on your machine to cache stuff. Resulting metadata will be placed in export/data/, machine-readable issue-hints can be found in export/hints/ and the processed screenshots are located in export/media/.

Validating metadata

Just run dep11-validate <dep11file>.yml.gz to check a file for spec-compliance.

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