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

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

Control: tags -1 + patch

Here is an upstreamable patch to fix this.

diff --git a/debian/patches/1000-appstream-metainfo.patch b/debian/patches/1000-appstream-metainfo.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..632babb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/1000-appstream-metainfo.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+Description: Added AppStream metainfo XML with hardware provide info.
+ This allow isenkram to propose this package when the virtual hardware
+ is present.
+Author: Petter Reinholdtsen
+Forwarded: no
+Last-Update: 2024-08-04
+---
+Index: xserver-xorg-video-vmware-13.3.0/org.x.video.vmware.metainfo.xml
+===================================================================
+--- /dev/null  1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
++++ xserver-xorg-video-vmware-13.3.0/org.x.video.vmware.metainfo.xml   2024-08-04 07:07:49.177086657 +0200
+@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
++<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
++<component>
++  <id>org.x.video.vmware</id>
++  <metadata_license>MIT</metadata_license>
++  <name>xserver-xorg-video-vmware</name>
++  <summary>X.Org X server -- VMware display driver</summary>
++  <description>
++    <p>This package provides the driver for VMware client sessions,
++    i.e. if Linux is running inside a VMware session.</p>
++    <p>This package is built from the X.org xf86-video-vmware driver
++    module.</p>
++  </description>
++  <url type="homepage">https://www.x.org</url>
++  <provides>
++    <modalias>dmi:*:svnVMWare*:*</modalias>
++  </provides>
++</component>
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 30b4052..8e90d38 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 0001-vmwgfx-fix-missing-array-notation.patch
+1000-appstream-metainfo.patch
diff --git a/debian/xserver-xorg-video-vmware.install b/debian/xserver-xorg-video-vmware.install
index daa64ce..4cf5bb1 100644
--- a/debian/xserver-xorg-video-vmware.install
+++ b/debian/xserver-xorg-video-vmware.install
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/*.so
 usr/share/man/man4/*
 usr/bin/vmwarectrl
+org.x.video.vmware.metainfo.xml usr/share/metainfo

The state of the git repository (no way to generate upstream tarball)
and the source .dsc (both inline patches and debian/patches/ patches)
made me unsure how to properly adjust the package, but I decided to use
the debian/patches/ approach to separate the change into a separate
file.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen