Bug#840881: xserver-xorg-video-vmware: Please announce supported hardware using AppStream

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

Package: xserver-xorg-video-vmware
Version: 1:13.1.0-2
Severity: wishlist
User: pere@hungry.com
Usertags: appstream-modalias

Hi.

The xserver-xorg-video-vmware 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 >.  There is also
<URL: https://wiki.debian.org/USB/GadgetSetup > with hints on how to set
up udev rules.

It would be great if you could add an appstream metainfo file to the
xserver-xorg-video-vmware package, with content similar to this:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <component>
   [...]
   <provides>
	<modalias>dmi:*:svnVMWare*:*</modalias>
   </provides>
  </component>

This should suggest xserver-xorg-video-vmware when DMI report that the
machine is a VMWare virtual machine.

If there are other hardware ids or kernel modules also supported by the
package, please add those too. :)

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen