appstream soname bump in Rawhide (special info for AppStreamQt users!)

[Neal Gompa]

Hey folks,

As part of the work to upgrade to KDE Plasma 6, appstream is being
upgraded to a snapshot release as 1.0.0 is arriving soon. There are
some consequences for this change:

* appstream has gone through an API/ABI breakage, and consumers will
need to adapt
* appstream-data needs to move its content from
/usr/share/app-info/{xmls,icons} to /usr/share/swcatalog/{xml,icons}
* Direct consumers of the C API will need to make changes to support
appstream 1.0
* Consumers of the Qt bindings moving to Qt6 will need to make changes
to support appstream 1.0
* Consumers of the Qt5 bindings will need to build against
appstream0.16-qt-devel

I've built appstream in a side-tag, and I'd appreciate it if folks
could help by adapting their packages and submitting builds into it.

This can be done with the following command: fedpkg build
--target=f40-build-side-76936

My simple query of the consumers of the libraries in question resulted in this:
ngompa@fedora ~> sudo dnf repoquery -q --whatrequires
"libappstream.so.4()(64bit)" --qf "%{SOURCE_NAME}"
appstream
appstream-generator
flatpak
gnome-software
libadwaita
malcontent
ngompa@fedora ~> sudo dnf repoquery -q --whatrequires
"libAppStreamQt.so.2()(64bit)" --qf "%{SOURCE_NAME}"
appstream
calamares
kf5-frameworkintegration
plasma-discover
plasma-workspace

We'll try to help where we can to update things accordingly.



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[Neal Gompa]

On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 9:43 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hey folks,
>
>  As part of the work to upgrade to KDE Plasma 6, appstream is being
>  upgraded to a snapshot release as 1.0.0 is arriving soon. There are
>  some consequences for this change:
>
>  * appstream has gone through an API/ABI breakage, and consumers will
>  need to adapt
>  * appstream-data needs to move its content from
>  /usr/share/app-info/{xmls,icons} to /usr/share/swcatalog/{xml,icons}
>  * Direct consumers of the C API will need to make changes to support
>  appstream 1.0
>  * Consumers of the Qt bindings moving to Qt6 will need to make changes
>  to support appstream 1.0
>  * Consumers of the Qt5 bindings will need to build against
>  appstream0.16-qt-devel
>
>  I've built appstream in a side-tag, and I'd appreciate it if folks
>  could help by adapting their packages and submitting builds into it.
>
>  This can be done with the following command: fedpkg build
>  --target=f40-build-side-76936
>
>  My simple query of the consumers of the libraries in question resulted in this:
>  ngompa@fedora ~> sudo dnf repoquery -q --whatrequires
>  "libappstream.so.4()(64bit)" --qf "%{SOURCE_NAME}"
>  appstream
>  appstream-generator
>  flatpak
>  gnome-software
>  libadwaita
>  malcontent 
I've handled appstream, appstream-generator, and appstream-data already.

* Flatpak has an upstream change that needs backporting[1] or a new release.
* GNOME Software has a merge request open[2].
* libadwaita has an upstream change that needs backporting[3].
* malcontent needs work done.

Please address these ASAP in some meaningful way and submit the result
into the "f40-build-side-76936" side tag.

[1]: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/pull/5563
[2]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/merge_requests/1810
[3]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libadwaita/-/merge_requests/1000



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[Milan Crha]

On Mon, 2023-11-06 at 22:33 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  * Flatpak has an upstream change that needs backporting[1] or a new
>  release.
>  * GNOME Software has a merge request open[2].
>  * libadwaita has an upstream change that needs backporting[3].
>  * malcontent needs work done. 
	Hi,
I'm sorry for a late response, I forgot of this. I tried to build
gnome-software in your side tag, but it fails due to the appstream
packages cannot be installed together:

Error: Transaction test error:
DEBUG util.py:446:    file /usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/AppStream-
1.0.typelib conflicts between attempted installs of appstream0.16-
0.16.3-1.fc40.x86_64 and appstream-1.0.0~git20231102.d88ed03-
1.fc40.x86_64

Thus I guess the dependencies need to be built in certain order, to not
pull in old and new appstream packages or there's some problem with
packaging of the two.
	Bye,
	Milan

[Kalev Lember]

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 9:18 AM Milan Crha <mcrha(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  I'm sorry for a late response, I forgot of this. I tried to
> build
>  gnome-software in your side tag, but it fails due to the appstream
>  packages cannot be installed together:
>
>  Error: Transaction test error:
>  DEBUG util.py:446:    file /usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/AppStream-
>  1.0.typelib conflicts between attempted installs of appstream0.16-
>  0.16.3-1.fc40.x86_64 and appstream-1.0.0~git20231102.d88ed03-
>  1.fc40.x86_64
>
>  Thus I guess the dependencies need to be built in certain order, to not
>  pull in old and new appstream packages or there's some problem with
>  packaging of the two.
>  
Hi Milan,

I went ahead and dropped the conflicting typelib file from the
appstream0.16 compat package in
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/appstream0.16/c/1f216a9f459dcfa5dec851...

Can you do 'koji wait-repo f40-build-side-76936 --build
appstream0.16-0.16.3-2.fc40' and try building gnome-software again once it
says that the package is available in the repo?

-- 
Kalev

[Milan Crha]

On Tue, 2023-11-07 at 12:12 +0100, Kalev Lember wrote:
>  Can you do 'koji wait-repo f40-build-side-76936 --build
>  appstream0.16-0.16.3-2.fc40' and try building gnome-software again
>  once it says that the package is available in the repo? 
	Hi,
it changed the problem to:

DEBUG util.py:446:  Error: 
DEBUG util.py:446:   Problem: package flatpak-devel-1.15.4-4.fc40.x86_64 from build
requires flatpak(x86-64) = 1.15.4-4.fc40, but none of the providers can be installed
DEBUG util.py:446:    - conflicting requests
DEBUG util.py:446:    - nothing provides appstream(x86-64) >= 1.0.0 needed by
flatpak-1.15.4-4.fc40.x86_64 from build

You can see the build here:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=108705408

	Bye,
	Milan

[Neal Gompa]

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 10:55 AM Milan Crha <mcrha(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Tue, 2023-11-07 at 12:12 +0100, Kalev Lember wrote:
>  > Can you do 'koji wait-repo f40-build-side-76936 --build
>  > appstream0.16-0.16.3-2.fc40' and try building gnome-software again
>  > once it says that the package is available in the repo?
>
>          Hi,
>  it changed the problem to:
>
>  DEBUG util.py:446:  Error:
>  DEBUG util.py:446:   Problem: package flatpak-devel-1.15.4-4.fc40.x86_64 from build
> requires flatpak(x86-64) = 1.15.4-4.fc40, but none of the providers can be installed
>  DEBUG util.py:446:    - conflicting requests
>  DEBUG util.py:446:    - nothing provides appstream(x86-64) >= 1.0.0 needed by
> flatpak-1.15.4-4.fc40.x86_64 from build
>
>  You can see the build here:
>  https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=108705408
>  
It needs to be "appstream%{?_isa} >= 1.0.0~".


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[Milan Crha]

On Tue, 2023-11-07 at 10:58 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  It needs to be "appstream%{?_isa} >= 1.0.0~". 
	Hi,
I'm sorry, I do not follow. Do you mean "1.0.0" is higher than
"1.0.0~git20231102.d88ed03-1.fc40", but lower than "1.0.0-2.fc40"?
That sounds odd to me.

Both flatpak and gnome-software have

   Requires: appstream%{?_isa} >= %{appstream_version}

adding the tilde only here and not into:

   BuildRequires: pkgconfig(appstream) >= %{appstream_version}

will lead to a problem in the future (at least for me, I'll forget
about it very soon).

What about removing that `Requires`? There is added un-versioned
dependency on libappstream.so.5()(64bit) anyway, which may work, as
long as the .soname versions are properly bumped on API/ABI changes,
right? I understand these `Requires` as "to be on a safe side" only.

	Bye,
	Milan

[Neal Gompa]

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 12:33 PM Milan Crha <mcrha(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Tue, 2023-11-07 at 10:58 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  > It needs to be "appstream%{?_isa} >= 1.0.0~".
>
>          Hi,
>  I'm sorry, I do not follow. Do you mean "1.0.0" is higher than
>  "1.0.0~git20231102.d88ed03-1.fc40", but lower than "1.0.0-2.fc40"?
>  That sounds odd to me.
>  
Yes. So your %appstream_version macro should have "1.0.0~".

>  Both flatpak and gnome-software have
>
>     Requires: appstream%{?_isa} >= %{appstream_version}
>
>  adding the tilde only here and not into:
>
>     BuildRequires: pkgconfig(appstream) >= %{appstream_version}
>
>  will lead to a problem in the future (at least for me, I'll forget
>  about it very soon).
>
>  What about removing that `Requires`? There is added un-versioned
>  dependency on libappstream.so.5()(64bit) anyway, which may work, as
>  long as the .soname versions are properly bumped on API/ABI changes,
>  right? I understand these `Requires` as "to be on a safe side" only.
>  
You can do that too if you like.




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[Milan Crha]

On Tue, 2023-11-07 at 12:37 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  Yes. So your %appstream_version macro should have "1.0.0~".
That would break the:

>  >    BuildRequires: pkgconfig(appstream) >=
> %{appstream_version} 
because appstream-devel Provides:

    pkgconfig(appstream) = 1.0.0

no? I know, I can try it, but this feels kinda bizarre.

	Bye,
	Milan

[Neal Gompa]

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 12:42 PM Milan Crha <mcrha(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Tue, 2023-11-07 at 12:37 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  > Yes. So your %appstream_version macro should have "1.0.0~".
>
>  That would break the:
>
>  > >    BuildRequires: pkgconfig(appstream) >= %{appstream_version}
>
>  because appstream-devel Provides:
>
>      pkgconfig(appstream) = 1.0.0
>
>  no? I know, I can try it, but this feels kinda bizarre.
>  
It works because 1.0.0~ < 1.0.0.



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[Milan Crha]

On Tue, 2023-11-07 at 12:43 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  It works because 1.0.0~ < 1.0.0. 
Hmm, odd.

Anyway, a rebuild of flatpak is needed (I do not have commit rights for
it).

	Thanks and bye,
	Milan

[Neal Gompa]

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 12:48 PM Milan Crha <mcrha(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Tue, 2023-11-07 at 12:43 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  > It works because 1.0.0~ < 1.0.0.
>
>  Hmm, odd.
>
>  Anyway, a rebuild of flatpak is needed (I do not have commit rights for
>  it).
>  
Taken care of it: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=108712482

Once it's done building and it shows up in the side-tag, you can try
again with gnome-software.



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[Neal Gompa]

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 12:54 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 12:48 PM Milan Crha <mcrha(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  >
>  > On Tue, 2023-11-07 at 12:43 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  > > It works because 1.0.0~ < 1.0.0.
>  >
>  > Hmm, odd.
>  >
>  > Anyway, a rebuild of flatpak is needed (I do not have commit rights for
>  > it).
>  >
>
>  Taken care of it: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=108712482
>
>  Once it's done building and it shows up in the side-tag, you can try
>  again with gnome-software.
>  
gnome-software is building fine now:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=108713434



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[Neal Gompa]

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 1:22 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 12:54 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  >
>  > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 12:48 PM Milan Crha <mcrha(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  > >
>  > > On Tue, 2023-11-07 at 12:43 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  > > > It works because 1.0.0~ < 1.0.0.
>  > >
>  > > Hmm, odd.
>  > >
>  > > Anyway, a rebuild of flatpak is needed (I do not have commit rights for
>  > > it).
>  > >
>  >
>  > Taken care of it: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=108712482
>  >
>  > Once it's done building and it shows up in the side-tag, you can try
>  > again with gnome-software.
>  >
>
>  gnome-software is building fine now:
>  https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=108713434
>  
malcontent builds with no changes, so I've submitted it into the
side-tag: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=108715187



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[Neal Gompa]

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 1:58 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 1:22 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  >
>  > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 12:54 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  > >
>  > > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 12:48 PM Milan Crha <mcrha(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  > > >
>  > > > On Tue, 2023-11-07 at 12:43 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  > > > > It works because 1.0.0~ < 1.0.0.
>  > > >
>  > > > Hmm, odd.
>  > > >
>  > > > Anyway, a rebuild of flatpak is needed (I do not have commit rights for
>  > > > it).
>  > > >
>  > >
>  > > Taken care of it:
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=108712482
>  > >
>  > > Once it's done building and it shows up in the side-tag, you can try
>  > > again with gnome-software.
>  > >
>  >
>  > gnome-software is building fine now:
>  > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=108713434
>  >
>
>  malcontent builds with no changes, so I've submitted it into the
>  side-tag: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=108715187
>  
Side tag submitted:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-a39bc414b2

The remaining KDE/Qt stuff is going to be resolved as we upgrade to Plasma 6.



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[Neal Gompa]

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 8:19 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 1:58 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  >
>  > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 1:22 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  > >
>  > > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 12:54 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  > > >
>  > > > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 12:48 PM Milan Crha <mcrha(a)redhat.com&gt;
> wrote:
>  > > > >
>  > > > > On Tue, 2023-11-07 at 12:43 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  > > > > > It works because 1.0.0~ < 1.0.0.
>  > > > >
>  > > > > Hmm, odd.
>  > > > >
>  > > > > Anyway, a rebuild of flatpak is needed (I do not have commit rights
> for
>  > > > > it).
>  > > > >
>  > > >
>  > > > Taken care of it:
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=108712482
>  > > >
>  > > > Once it's done building and it shows up in the side-tag, you can try
>  > > > again with gnome-software.
>  > > >
>  > >
>  > > gnome-software is building fine now:
>  > > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=108713434
>  > >
>  >
>  > malcontent builds with no changes, so I've submitted it into the
>  > side-tag: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=108715187
>  >
>
>  Side tag submitted:
>  https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-a39bc414b2
>
>  The remaining KDE/Qt stuff is going to be resolved as we upgrade to Plasma 6.
>  
All consumers of appstream0.16 have been ported to appstream (1.0), so
now the compatibility package is being retired.



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[Debarshi Ray]

Hey Neal,

On Mon, 2023-11-06 at 22:33 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 9:43 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com&gt;
> wrote:
>  > 
>  > Hey folks,
>  > 
>  > As part of the work to upgrade to KDE Plasma 6, appstream is being
>  > upgraded to a snapshot release as 1.0.0 is arriving soon. There are
>  > some consequences for this change:
>  > 
>  > [...]
>  >
>  > I've built appstream in a side-tag, and I'd appreciate it if folks
>  > could help by adapting their packages and submitting builds into
>  > it.
>  > 
>  > This can be done with the following command: fedpkg build
>  > --target=f40-build-side-76936
>  > 
>  > My simple query of the consumers of the libraries in question
>  > resulted in this:
>  > ngompa@fedora ~> sudo dnf repoquery -q --whatrequires
>  > "libappstream.so.4()(64bit)" --qf "%{SOURCE_NAME}"
>  > appstream
>  > appstream-generator
>  > flatpak
>  > gnome-software
>  > libadwaita
>  > malcontent
>  
>  I've handled appstream, appstream-generator, and appstream-data
>  already.
>  
>  * Flatpak has an upstream change that needs backporting[1] or a new
>  release. 
I am working on the Flatpak backport.

Cheers,
Rishi

[Kalev Lember]

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 4:34 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  * Flatpak has an upstream change that needs backporting[1] or a new
>  release.
>  * GNOME Software has a merge request open[2].
>  * libadwaita has an upstream change that needs backporting[3].
>  * malcontent needs work done.
>
>  Please address these ASAP in some meaningful way and submit the result
>  into the "f40-build-side-76936" side tag.
>  
Hi Neal,

I've backported the appstream 1.0 patches to libadwaita and built it in the
side tag.

-- 
Kalev

[Mattia Verga]

Il 03/11/23 02:43, Neal Gompa ha scritto:
>  * appstream-data needs to move its content from
>  /usr/share/app-info/{xmls,icons} to /usr/share/swcatalog/{xml,icons} 
I think this is the third time they change path. BTW, 'app-info' was the 
previous one, 0.16 used 'metainfo' [1], now 'swcatalog'... let's hope

they're happy with this last name.

Mattia

[1] 
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Quickstart.html#...

[Neal Gompa]

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 1:16 PM Mattia Verga via devel
<devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  Il 03/11/23 02:43, Neal Gompa ha scritto:
>  > * appstream-data needs to move its content from
>  > /usr/share/app-info/{xmls,icons} to /usr/share/swcatalog/{xml,icons}
>
>  I think this is the third time they change path. BTW, 'app-info' was the
>  previous one, 0.16 used 'metainfo' [1], now 'swcatalog'... let's
> hope
>  they're happy with this last name.
>  
Per package stuff was /usr/share/appdata -> /usr/share/metainfo.

Our packaged AppStream repodata needs to move from /usr/share/app-info
to /usr/share/swcatalog. This change is a unique issue for us because
nobody else does packaged AppStream repodata.



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