[gnome-shell] build: Move metainfo version check into distscript

[Marge Bot <marge-bot src gnome org>]

commit 537f754fb037ce315bb3813b2a9d79f4846e2f97
Author: Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org>
Date:   Tue Aug 31 12:25:28 2021 +0200

    build: Move metainfo version check into distscript
    
    The time we really care about current release information in appdata is
    when preparing a release, not during regular builds.
    
    Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1968>

 subprojects/extensions-app/build-aux/meson/check-version.py | 1 +
 subprojects/extensions-app/data/metainfo/meson.build        | 9 ---------
 subprojects/extensions-app/meson.build                      | 7 +++++++
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/subprojects/extensions-app/build-aux/meson/check-version.py 
b/subprojects/extensions-app/build-aux/meson/check-version.py
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..fbe6c74582
--- /dev/null
+++ b/subprojects/extensions-app/build-aux/meson/check-version.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../../../meson/check-version.py
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/subprojects/extensions-app/data/metainfo/meson.build 
b/subprojects/extensions-app/data/metainfo/meson.build
index 4406a3e5bd..c4962c0576 100644
--- a/subprojects/extensions-app/data/metainfo/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/extensions-app/data/metainfo/meson.build
@@ -13,13 +13,4 @@ if (appstream_util.found())
     args: ['validate', '--nonet', metainfo],
     workdir: meson.current_build_dir()
   )
-
-  r = run_command(appstream_util, '--help')
-  if (r.stdout().contains('validate-version'))
-    test('Checking release entry for @0@'.format(meson.project_version()),
-      appstream_util,
-      args: ['validate-version', metainfo, meson.project_version()],
-      workdir: meson.current_build_dir()
-    )
-  endif
 endif
diff --git a/subprojects/extensions-app/meson.build b/subprojects/extensions-app/meson.build
index 24abe118da..da539ed04f 100644
--- a/subprojects/extensions-app/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/extensions-app/meson.build
@@ -62,6 +62,13 @@ if not meson.is_subproject()
 
   meson.add_install_script('build-aux/meson/postinstall.py')
 
+  if appstream_util.found()
+    meson.add_dist_script('build-aux/meson/check-version.py',
+      meson.project_version(),
+      '--type=metainfo',
+      'data/metainfo/org.gnome.Extensions.metainfo.xml.in')
+  endif
+
   summary_dirs = {
     'prefix': get_option('prefix'),
     'bindir': get_option('bindir'),