Bug#916735: lintian: appstream-metadata-missing-modalias-provide should be info, not warn

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Paul Wise]
> I don't think I have the requisite time and understanding to do this,
> hopefully Petter will be interested to work on this but in general I
> think it will be best for individual upstreams to work on this since
> they know their software best and how to best expose which info.

I registered a bts report against nitrokey-app with a proposed patch to
announce hardware support using appstream.  See
<URL: https://bugs.debian.org/916911 >.

I guess the documentation should be updated to make it more clear how to
do it, but I am a bit blind to exactly what is hard to comprehend about
the task, so I will need help with that.

I do not have much spare time either, but did file quite a few bug
reports with patches for providing metadata on supported hardware to
several packages.  Unfortunately most of these patches are just
lingering in BTS, so I ran out of steem and motivation for that
approach.  Perhaps adding appstream information into policy is a better
approach.  I kind of doubt it, as policy should should not be a stick to
force people to do work they do not want to do.  How can me make people
want to provide hardware metadata for their packages?  A lintian warning
help a bit, but it obviously not convincing the remaining package
maintainers.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen