Gnome Software catalog entry missing for Scribus

I know nothing about this stuff, and I'm not that sure I'm interested in learning it.
If this is about the file that goes in /usr/share/appdata/, upstream added it some days ago in their SVN repo. If somebody is particularly interested in having it, I'd welcome a patch for it.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

(thanks ximion for the pointer in the duplicated bug)
What needs fixing: http://appstream.ubuntu.com/xenial/universe/issues/scribus.html

BTW, having gnome-software show only packages with valid appstream metadata seems so bad. The appstream support in package is imho still too incomplete to have such a change in a LTS.
In my debianish idea of stable update fixing such bug in a stable release would be bad, but I guess it'll have to be done...

This needs to be fixed in Scribus: http://appstream.ubuntu.com/xenial/universe/issues/scribus.html
No metainfo file is strictly required, but having a suitable icon is.

For some reason Debian finds data for Scribus though, I need to investigate why: https://appstream.debian.org/sid/main/metainfo/scribus.html

Okay, well, the generator should have found Scribus in Ubuntu, I assume the Contents.gz file was not up-to-date when it was processed, which is unfortunate.

Regardless of that, Scribus could benefit from a better icon in /usr/share/icons/hicolor instead of the generic one in pixmaps/, so this bug is at least partially valid.
It has a lower priority though.

So, I just uploaded a thing to Debian that should make this work (also, nicely than using the the small icon in /usr/share/pixmaps).
Though, probably this needs an SRU for xenial, which I'll do once I confirm this works nicely.

So, what I did was enough for yakkety, but it's not currently working due to a regression on libappstream-glib (already reported).

Hello AsciiWolf, or anyone else affected,

Accepted scribus into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scribus/1.4.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Hi Timo,

I just tested and still can't find "scribus" in Ubuntu Software.
Searching "scribus" in Synaptic gives me the results though. Please see the screenshots.

Looks like it ran into the contents-file-not-refreshed issue: http://appstream.ubuntu.com/xenial-proposed/universe/issues/scribus.html
There is nothing Scribus can do about this yet, since this is a limitation in dep11-generator, and can only be fixed by the people maintaining it in Ubuntu (be requeueing Scribus for processing).

indeed, thus prodding Laney some more, then :)
in the meantime, keeping verification-needed until this can be confirmed

Laney poked dep11-gen and now scribus is visible in {ubuntu,gnome}-software :)

Just checked and I can confirm that Scribus is now visible. Many thanks!

This bug was fixed in the package scribus - 1.4.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1

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scribus (1.4.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Backport 1.4.6+dfsg-3 to make scribus appear in gnome-software again.
    LP: #1575339

 -- Mattia Rizzolo <email address hidden> Thu, 26 May 2016 17:38:49 +0000

The verification of the Stable Release Update for scribus has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.