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Fix appdata paper cuts#38

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  • Correct developer ID
  • Drop categories from the metainfo file
  • Drop incorrect update_contact information
  • Fix a release tag
  • Add missing vcs-browser and bugtracker URLs

The update_contact tag is an optional tag which can be added to provide an email address distributors can use to contact the project about invalid or incomplete metadata or – in case the specification has changed – about old metadata. It can also be used to ask general questions in case of an update of the component described in the metadata file.

Source: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-update_contact


Categories and keywords

If there’s a launchable defined for a desktop application, categories and keywords are pulled from the desktop file. Defining them separately in the Metainfo file will override the contents of the desktop file.

Source: https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/metainfo-guidelines#categories-and-keywords

- Correct developer ID
- Drop categories from the metainfo file 
- Drop incorrect update_contact information

> The update_contact tag is an optional tag which can be added to provide an **email address** distributors can use to contact the project about invalid or incomplete metadata or – in case the specification has changed – about old metadata. It can also be used to ask general questions in case of an update of the component described in the metadata file. 

Source: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-update_contact

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> Categories and keywords
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> If there’s a launchable defined for a desktop application, categories and keywords are pulled from the desktop file. Defining them separately in the Metainfo file will override the contents of the desktop file.

Source: https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/metainfo-guidelines#categories-and-keywords
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ptitSeb commented Mar 14, 2026

Thanks

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