[Octave-patch-tracker] [patch #8866] image package: add metainfo.xml file for Gnome Software

[Colin Macdonald]

Follow-up Comment #4, patch #8866 (project octave):

I'm really no expert, but the AppData philosophy seems to be that "upstream"
(you) are in a better position to describe your own software.  A user searches
for e.g., "image processing" and they find Octave and the image package.

1. agreed!  If you wish, you can drop the description tag: its not used for
anything in current package managers.  The phrasing of the description and
summary tags has specific requirements so its not easy to just (e.g.,) extract
it from DESCRIPTION.  The other way around is probably do-able.

2. eventually the file needs to go in $prefix/share/appdata.  I'm uncertain
where to keep it as well.  I thought its similar to DESCRIPTION.  GNU Octave
has it in etc/icons.  I should look around and see what common practice is.

3.  keywords are free form: I just put some commonly used functions that I
thought users might search for.  Feel free to change them.

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