In the effort to make the AppStream generation simpler I'm going to deprecate the fedora-appstream repo[1]. This was always designed to be a stop-gap until upstreams had done new tarball releases and to "rescue" applications that we care a lot about, and we're now at a point where over 50% of upstream software ships AppData and the general consensus upstream and downstream is that AppData is a good thing. We've now even put the requirement for AppData in our packaging guidelines. I would ask the package maintainer (or a proven packager) to move the AppData files in the srpm itself. I'm happy to help for the lost-maintainer case but there are just too many for me to do myself. All the .appdata.xml files have been sent upstream and if the downstream package maintainer isn't happy shipping it them we should just drop the file. The fedora-appstream repo was never meant to be a long term solution and is slowly turning into a graveyard. The preferred way of doing this is to add a new "Source" in the .spec, to upload the file using fedpkg new-sources and then to install the file using something like "install -Dm 0644 -p %{SOURCE2} %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/appdata/foo.appdata.xml" but you can also install it using the EOF trick too. If the AppData file already exists upstream, please let me know. I should have already removed all distro-overrides where an upstream file exists, but there are a few apps that ship a file in the tarball without installing it. The spreadsheet is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V6Oa9yP4oHFvbwyd0aNjEL92LUmKclLQJ... -- I can't promise cookies, but I'll really appreciate it and it means the applications won't disappear from Fedora 23. Yell if you have any questions. Thanks, Richard [1] https://github.com/hughsie/fedora-appstream/ Affected desktop files: abiword Add64 aeskulap alexandria amoebax amulegui arcstat-ui ardour2 armacycles-ad ascend4 astromenace asylum atanks ballz barrage billiards biloba blender blobwars BlockOutII bpython bssh btanks bvnc bzflag calibrate_lens_gui cave9 cbrpager ccgo celestia chinese-calendar chocolate-doom chromium CMake colossus Coot CriticalMass crossfire-client CRRCsim CUBE darkplaces-quake dia diffuse dispcalGUI-3DLUT-maker dispcalGUI-curve-viewer dispcalGUI-profile-info dispcalGUI-synthprofile dispcalGUI-testchart-editor dispcalGUI-VRML-to-X3D-converter doom dreampie dsi echomixer edb edfviewer edgar elementsinfo emacsclient envy24control escape eyesight fbg2 fbzx file-roller fillets findthatword firefox flare flarq flaw fldigi-doc FlightGear font-manager fontmatrix fonts-tweak-tool freeciv freeciv-modpack freediams freedoom freemedforms frozen-bubble funguloids gambas GammaRay garden gda-browser-5.0 geany geeqie giggle git-dag glade-3 glc_player glob2 globaltime gnome-disks gnome-ekiga gnome-nettool gnome-phone-manager gnome-search-tool gnome-subtitles gnome-system-log GNUSim8085 gobby gogui goldendict gphpedit gpick gpodder groovy gtg gtranslator guitone gvim gvrng gweled gwget hamster-time-tracker-overview hatari haxima hdspconf hdspmixer heimdall hexglass hgview hotot hotot-qt iep inkscape jaxodraw k3d kajongg kalgebramobile kapman kbibtex key-mon KGoldrunner kollision krusader_root-mode ksudoku kubrick ladi-system-tray lbrickbuster2 LibreAtlas librecad lincity-ng lingot lordsawar luminance-hdr luxrender lxmusic manaplus mandelbulber mca2edf megaglest memaker methane MiniCopier mj monodevelop mousepad mozilla-thunderbird mtpaint musique mypaint naev nemiver netpanzer neverball neverputt nomacs octave office-runner oggconvert openalchemist openarena openlierox openmsx openshot openttd opticalraytracer orca org.gnome.Screenshot Panini pdfmod pdfshuffler peakidentifier phatch phatch-inspector picmi pingus pinta pioneers planner plee-the-bear plotdrop postr PTBatcherGUI pychess pymcabatch pymcapostbatch pymcaroitool qcomicbook qt4-linguist quasselclient rafkill rawtherapee redeclipse revelation rocksndiamonds scinotes scorched3d screengrab screenie-composer scribus setroubleshoot shutter sir skanlite smb4k sound-juicer speed-dreams springlobby stoken-gui-small sublime_text subtitleeditor sudoku-savant supertuxkart tagtool teeworlds tennix Thunar Thunar-bulk-rename tintii tomboy torcs transmission-gtk tremulous tuxguitar tuxpaint tuxtype2 uqm uzbl vdrift viewnior vlc warmux warzone2100 WebHTTrack-Websites wesnoth wings wireshark xchat xcos xmedcon xmoto xmove xonotic xpbsmon xsane xskat xzgv yelp zaz zynaddsubfx-jack