[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#838154: alsa-firmware-loaders: Please announce supported hardware using AppStream

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Package: alsa-firmware-loaders
Version: 1.1.0-1
Severity: wishlist
User: pere at hungry.com
Usertags: appstream-modalias

Hi.

The alsa-firmware-loaders package is one of the packages in the Debian
archive that should be proposed for installation when a given hardware
dongle is inserted or available.  Thanks to the appstream system, this
can now be announced in a way other tools can use and act on.  I've
written the isenkram system to ask the current user if hardware specific
packages should be installed when a new dongle is installed or already
present on a machine, and isenkram now uses appstream as one source for
hardware to package mappings.

You can read more about this on my blog, 
<URL: http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_appstream_with_isenkram_to_install_hardware_related_packages_in_Debian.html >.

Instructions on how to create the metadata XML file can be found in
<URL: https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines >.

It would be great if you could add an appstream metainfo file to the
alsa-firmware-loaders package, with content similar to this:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <component>
   [...]
   <provides>
	<modalias>usb:v1604p8000d*</modalias>
	<modalias>usb:v1604p8001d*</modalias>
	<modalias>usb:v1604p8004d*</modalias>
	<modalias>usb:v1604p8005d*</modalias>
	<modalias>usb:v1604p8006d*</modalias>
	<modalias>usb:v1604p8007d*</modalias>
    </provides>
  </component>

If there are other USB ids also supposed by the package, please add
those too. :)

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen