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<section id="sect-Quickstart-Distros">
<title>For distributors packaging Appstream metadata</title>
<section id="qsr-distro-introduction">
<title>Guidelines for distributors</title>
<para>
Distributors of projects with AppStream metadata perform an important role
by making the software available to more people. There are a few guidelines
distributors should follow in order for software centers to present
the correct information to users.
</para>
</section>
<section id="qsr-distro-guidelines">
<title>Guidelines for distributors</title>
<para>
A binary package that contains AppStream desktop metadata (<xref linkend="sect-Metadata-Application"/>)
must also contain both the .desktop file for the application and the application itself.
</para>
<para>
A binary package must not contain more than one AppStream metadata file. The one exception is
that it is permissable for a binary package that is extended by addons to include those addons
(<xref linkend="sect-Metadata-Addon"/>) and their AppStream metadata files. Note that users
will be unable to remove those addons separately.
</para>
<para>
Except for the extended package, no other package may contain more than one Appstream addon metadata file.
</para>
</section>
</section>
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