[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Add appdata file and make it known to Makefile.am (#1142)

[Colomban Wendling]

> If a metainfo file provides a `<provides/>` tag, distributors must also ensure that the package providing the file contain all items referenced by that statement, or is installed by a metapackage depending on packages which provide these items.

This sounds like if this file becomes outdated, distributors would be supposed to stop distributing Geany.

> This gives upstream projects a (very light) way to influence distributor packaging.

Meh.  It's not our role to package for a distribution, nor to influence it farther than making a sensible product.

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