On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 04:47:08PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 02.10.2014 um 16:32 schrieb Richard Hughes:
>> On 2 October 2014 15:17, Tim Lauridsen <tim.lauridsen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I think that is a bad idea to exclude applications from a Software manager,
>>> because they don't live up to some visual quality guidelines.
>>
>> There's actually a whole load of reasons why we'd blacklist
>> applications:
https://github.com/hughsie/appstream-glib#guidelines-for-applications
>> for instance programs that identify themselves as "settings" or apps
>> that haven't had an upstream release in 5 years
>
> don't get me wrong but "haven't had an upstream release in 5
years"
> is a silly reasoning - if an application works and has the feature
> set it was intended to provide upstream needs to open the changelog
> type there "to make some distribution clown happy", raise the version
> number and the maintainer in the distribution too has useless work?
You may disagree and say so, but calling anyone a clown is not going to make
your argument stronger, quite the contrary in fact.
Please do not resolve to personal attack on this list
you misunderstood me
*that* would be the exact message i would write in the
log a upstream maintainer if someone tells me my
application which works just fine needs a update
because it otherwise is not displayed