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Install an appdata/metainfo file for Linux packages #31

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@Jacalz

Not sure about how standardised this is over on the BSD side but it is at least used widely on Linux to add application metadata to get more app details in app stores. As example is https://github.com/Jacalz/rymdport/blob/main/internal/assets/unix/io.github.jacalz.rymdport.appdata.xml, installed to $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/appdata/$(APPID).appdata.xml, in Rymdport.

This does present a few complications as to how a user would fill out this with information that we don't have (links to images, urls, colours etc.) but we might be able to at least do something minimal that is better than nothing. I don't think the app will show up in the software store at all in some cases without this file (but that depends on the packaging format and software app of course).

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