Matthias Klumpp: JPEG-XL, AppStream, and better media processing

Two weeks ago, I released AppStream 1.2.0. This release contains a lot of great changes, but one of the most important ones concerns how media are being handled, and AppStream’s default image export format. AppStream is a Freedesktop metadata standard to describe software components. That can be anything from system services over fonts to console and graphical applications. AppStream metadata is supposed to give users enough information to decide whether they want to install a piece of software, to represent…

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