AppStream Report for Debian
AppStream is a cross-distro XML format to provide metadata for software components and to assign unique identifiers to software. In Debian, we parse all XML provided by upstream projects as well as other metadata (.desktop-files, ...), and compile a single YAML metadata file from it, which is then shipped to users via APT.
Présentation
While the official AppStream specification is based on XML, Debian uses a YAML version of the format for easier use in existing scripts and for better archive integration. This format is called DEP-11, and initially had a much wider scope in enhancing archive metadata than AppStream had. Today AppStream covers that as well, and DEP-11 is only a YAML version of AppStream.
See AppStream @ wiki.d.o for information about AppStream integration and usage in Debian. The offical AppStream specification can be found at freedesktop.org, a description of the DEP-11 YAML format is hosted there as well.
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