Bug#837987: printer-driver-splix: Please announce supported hardware using AppStream
Package: printer-driver-splix
Version: 2.0.0+svn315-5
Severity: wishlist
User: pere@hungry.com
Usertags: appstream-modalias
Hi.
The printer-driver-splix package is one of the packages in the Debian
archive that should be proposed for installation when a given hardware
dongle is inserted or available. Thanks to the appstream system, this
can now be announced in a way other tools can use and act on. I've
written the isenkram system to ask the current user if hardware specific
packages should be installed when a new dongle is installed or already
present on a machine, and isenkram now uses appstream as one source for
hardware to package mappings.
You can read more about this on my blog,
<URL: http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_appstream_with_isenkram_to_install_hardware_related_packages_in_Debian.html >.
Instructions on how to create the metadata XML file can be found in
<URL: https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines >.
It would be great if you could add an appstream metainfo file to the
printer-driver-splix package, with content similar to this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<component>
[...]
<provides>
<modalias>usb:v04E8p323Ad*</modalias>
<modalias>usb:v04E8p323Bd*</modalias>
<modalias>usb:v04E8p323Dd*</modalias>
<modalias>usb:v04E8p3242d*</modalias>
<modalias>usb:v04E8p324Cd*</modalias>
<modalias>usb:v04E8p324Dd*</modalias>
<modalias>usb:v04E8p325Bd*</modalias>
<modalias>usb:v04E8p325Fd*</modalias>
<modalias>usb:v04E8p3260d*</modalias>
<modalias>usb:v04E8p3268d*</modalias>
<modalias>usb:v04E8p3276d*</modalias>
<modalias>usb:v04E8p341Bd*</modalias>
<modalias>usb:v04E8p3426d*</modalias>
</provides>
</component>
If there are other USB ids also supposed by the package, please add
those too. :)
--
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
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