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	<title>AppStream</title>
	<subtitle>Infrastructure for distro-agnostic software-centers and software metadata handling</subtitle>
	<productname>AppStream</productname>
	<productnumber>0.9</productnumber>
	<edition>1</edition>
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		<para>
			AppStream is a cross-distro effort for enhancing the way we interact with the software
			repositories provided by the distribution by standardizing sets of additional metadata.
		</para>
		<para>
			AppStream provides the foundation to build software-center applications.
			It additionally provides specifications for things like an unified software metadata database,
			screenshot services and various other things needed to create user-friendly application-centers
			for (Linux) distributions.
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