Bug#843215: fwupd: Please announce supported hardware using appstream

2016-11-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2016-11-09 at 20:35 +, Mario Limonciello wrote: > This is turning into a bit of a philosophical question, but why package > flashable FW in Debian in the first place? You may as well ask "why package anything for Debian?". > Runtime loadable FW I entirely agree should be packaged so

Bug#843215: fwupd: Please announce supported hardware using appstream

2016-11-08 Thread Mario.Limonciello
Paul, > I was mainly talking about the devices that can be found in this file: > > /lib/udev/rules.d/90-fwupd-devices.rules > > Those are a static set of devices not determined at runtime. > I guess for those, prompting the user to install fwupd is a good idea. > On the contrary, I would

Bug#843215: fwupd: Please announce supported hardware using appstream

2016-11-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2016-11-07 at 19:26 +, Mario Limonciello wrote: > That's a chicken and egg problem unfortunately.  This type of information is > dependent upon the machine that fwupd is running on and can't be determined > at build time. I was mainly talking about the devices that can be found in

Bug#843215: fwupd: Please announce supported hardware using appstream

2016-11-07 Thread Mario.Limonciello
12:01 AM > To: bts <sub...@bugs.debian.org> > Subject: Bug#843215: fwupd: Please announce supported hardware using > appstream > > Package: fwupd > Severity: wishlist > User: p...@hungry.com > Usertags: appstream-modalias > X-Debbugs-CC: p...@debian.org > > Plea

Bug#843215: fwupd: Please announce supported hardware using appstream

2016-11-04 Thread Paul Wise
Package: fwupd Severity: wishlist User: p...@hungry.com Usertags: appstream-modalias X-Debbugs-CC: p...@debian.org Please announce the supported hardware via AppStream. That will allow users that are using isenkram to know that they might want to install fwupd when they plugin a device that can