Bug#1079188: nvidia-legacy-340xx-kernel-dkms: Add Appstream metainfo announcing HW support

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Andreas Beckmann]
> Disclaimer: I have no clue what AppStream is or how it works.

Perhaps <URL: http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/tags/isenkram/ > can be
illuminating?

> Shouldn't all the driver series packages support this?

Most likely.

> Since the different driver series are co-installable, they need to use 
> different file names at the installation location to not conflict with 
> each other.

Yes.

> ++    <modalias>pci:v000010DEd000006FDsv*</modalias>
>
> isn't that a wildcard matching all nvidia gpus?

According to /usr/share/misc/pci.ids it is this entry:

  10de  NVIDIA Corporation
    06fd  G98 [Quadro NVS 295]

> Shouldn't that be restricted to the ones supported by this driver?

Yes.  And if you know more hardware supported by the driver, it should
be listed too. :)

> For patch simplification, don't create the new file with a patch but
> place it in debian/.

As I believe in general the AppStream metadata XML files should be
shared across Linux distributions and provided from upstream, I tend to
create a upstreamable patch for the change.

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen