Bug#1078751: steam-devices: Add Appstream metainfo announcing HW support
Petter Reinholdtsen
pere at hungry.com
Sun Jan 26 20:23:05 GMT 2025
While I agree that 1130:0202 is a cut-n-paste error on my part, the
intention was to fetch the relevant IDs from the udev rules. Among the
many BTS reports I have sent to try to get machine readable hardware
mappings into Debian, this one obvously included a mistake. Sorry about
that.
I leave the decision on keeping or not keeping the hardware mapping in
your capable hands. You know the package better than me.
I just want to note that at least some of your argument seem to revolve
around the idea that packages would be automatically installed based on
the mapping provided. At least at the moment, this information is only
used by those installing isenkram to get a list of possible packages to
install. It is up to the user if they want to install it or not.
Perhaps it will be more automatic in the future, perhaps also using
other tools, but at least today it is not.
As for the usefulness, I guess it both depend on the package and who
evaluate it. I find it very useful to get information about packages
useful for my current set of hardware automatically, so I do not have to
sift through 50 000 packages to try to locate such packages manually.
Thanks to the hardware mapping in Isenkram, I discovered a tool to get
the battery status out of my wireless mouse the other day. I would not
have discovered that this was possible without AppStream hardware
mappings and isenkram. :)
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
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