[Pkg-electronics-devel] Lintian warning appstream-metadata-missing-modalias-provide

[Geert Stappers]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 02:02:03PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> Hi Debian Electronics Team,
> 
> Lintian warns about 'appstream-metadata-missing-modalias-provide'
> and says
> N: 
> N:    This package contain a udev rule for providing device access to the
> N:    console user (using the uaccess udev TAG) or to members of the plugdev
> N:    file group without announcing the hardware support using AppStream.
> N:    
> N:    Refer to https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines for details.
> N:    
> N:    Severity: normal, Certainty: certain
> N:    
> N:    Check: appstream-metadata, Type: binary
> N: 
> 
> 
> At https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines#Announcing_supported_hardware
> is an example with 1 software application and 1 hardware device.
> 
> 
> What to do with the warning?
> 
> What if an application supports several devices?
> Put IDs of several devices in the same XML file?
> 
 
That, several devices in the same XML file, is done in

https://salsa.debian.org/electronics-team/openocd/commit/84b1ebbe898f661a854782dc18db342f8285cc1e


 
Groeten
Geert Stappers
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