Bug#840881: xserver-xorg-video-vmware: Please announce supported hardware using AppStream
Control: tag -1 wontfix
On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 20:37:58 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> 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.
>
That doesn't sound like something we'd want to manually maintain.
Cheers,
Julien
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