Comment # 5 on bug 949983 from Dominique Leuenberger

(In reply to Wolfgang Rosenauer from comment #4)
> I don't get it still.
> BTW, what is "application:Firefox-.noarch" at all?

That's a stupid representation of zypper.. it knowns of type 'application'
(zypper se -t application') which lists all the 'applications' (not packages).
Apps are identified by their appdata.xml file.


> Please also see bug 948708 which was reported against 13.2 and the package
> from the mozilla repo which is identical to the one in Factory/TW (except
> version dependent things).

13.2 had no valid appdata creation.. so I'm only marginally surprised there

> I'll submit a new Firefox package asap with the following addition:
> %if "%{update_channel}" != "aurora"
> Provides:       appdata()
> Provides:       appdata(firefox.appdata.xml)
> %endif

That should handle it for Leap.. of course we should still understand the
difference between Leap and TW, why one adds the prov automatically, the other
one does not (after all, in Leap we also lose the mime-capabilities in the rpm
metadata)

> (the appdata xml is not installed if we build dev edition from the same
> spec).
> 
> But this is just a try to fix the dependency issue which I still do not
> understand.

I think as a workaround for Leap this is perfectly legit. It's better than not
being able to execute 'zypper verify' without an error - especially, as the
workaround is that simple.

Thanks for the work Wolfgang!