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Bug#843215: marked as done (fwupd: Please announce supported hardware using appstream)

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regarding fwupd: Please announce supported hardware using appstream
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Package: fwupd
Severity: wishlist
User: pere@hungry.com
Usertags: appstream-modalias
X-Debbugs-CC: pere@debian.org

Please announce the supported hardware via AppStream. That will allow
users that are using isenkram to know that they might want to install
fwupd when they plugin a device that can get firmware updates.

More info about how to do this is available on the wiki page:

https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines#Announcing_supported_hardware

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On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 22:51 +0000, Mario Limonciello wrote:

> On the contrary, I would disagree here.  Those devices just show
> information about the current firmware on the device from udev.  
> Prompting the user to install fwupd just to see this information
> seems like a giant waste of time.  The really valuable ones are 
> the ones that you can actually perform an update for.

I see, thanks for explaining the situation to me, closing bug then.

> Actually ARM platforms I think make a lot of sense too.  

I suppose for UEFI based ones where the firmware is proprietary, sure.

> Fwupd can perform updates for USB type devices (DFU & Colorhug) that 
> can both be used with ARM platforms.

IIRC the ColourHug firmware is open source, so it is exactly the kind
of device where Debian should package the firmware properly.

> It also has specific support for Raspberry Pi FW:
> https://github.com/hughsie/fwupd/blob/master/src/fu-provider-rpi.c

I would rather Debian properly package the open RPi firmware instead:

https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware

> Actually in looking closer at this, this doesn't really make sense given
> what isenkram does.  It duplicates effort from what gnome-software
> already does with fwupd.

Not everyone uses GNOME, so I still think it would be useful.

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