Bug#916735: lintian: appstream-metadata-missing-modalias-provide should be info, not warn
On Thursday, December 20, 2018 01:08:54 PM Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [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.
I appreciate you filing the bug.
One more example of how I think the priority for this is wrong. Currently
lintian claims this issue (W) is more important than missing hardening flags
(I). I don't think that's right.
I'll lay off this bug now as I think I've expressed myself fully and it's
really up to the lintian maintainers to decided.
Scott K
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