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has caused the Debian Bug report #1076348,
regarding firmware-microbit-micropython: Add Appstream metainfo announcing HW
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: firmware-microbit-micropython
Version: 1.0.1-4
Tags: patch
User: [email protected]
Usertags: appstream-modalias
Here is a patch to add Appstream metainfo XML announcing the hardware
handled by this package.
Including this information in the package will ensure programs mapping
hardware to packages using Appstream information, like the isenkram
package, will know that this package is useful on machines where the USB
IDs are discovered.
diff --git a/debian/firmware-microbit-micropython.install
b/debian/firmware-microbit-micropython.install
index 25c4ec8..5735406 100644
--- a/debian/firmware-microbit-micropython.install
+++ b/debian/firmware-microbit-micropython.install
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
build/firmware.hex usr/share/firmware-microbit-micropython
+com.github.bbcmicrobit.micropython.metainfo.xml usr/share/metainfo
diff --git a/debian/patches/1000-appstream-metainfo.patch
b/debian/patches/1000-appstream-metainfo.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4dbf861
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/1000-appstream-metainfo.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+Description: Added AppStream metainfo with hardware provides.
+ Allow mapping from hardware to package.
+Author: Petter Reinholdtsen
+Forwarded: no
+Last-Update: 2024-07-14
+--- /dev/null 2024-07-12 16:43:45.219502469 +0200
++++ b/com.github.bbcmicrobit.micropython.metainfo.xml 2024-07-14
20:53:05.559971391 +0200
+@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
++<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
++<component>
++ <id>com.github.bbcmicrobit.micropython</id>
++ <metadata_license>MIT</metadata_license>
++ <name>firmware-microbit-micropython</name>
++ <summary>MicroPython runtime for the BBC micro:bit</summary>
++ <description>
++ <p>This package provides a binary firmware file for the BBC
++ micro:bit small board computer (SBC), containing the MicroPython
++ runtime.</p>
++
++ <p>It is suggested that a dedicated flashing tool (e.g. uflash) is
++ used to upload the firmware and Python scripts to the micro:bit
++ device.</p>
++
++ <p>The uflash utility (package: python3-uflash) uses the
++ MicroPython runtime provided in this package as the default
++ firmware to flash to the micro:bit.</p>
++
++ <p>This package contains the MicroPython runtime for the BBC
++ micro:bit.</p>
++ </description>
++ <provides>
++ <modalias>usb:v0D28p0204d*</modalias>
++ </provides>
++</component>
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
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Version: 1.0.1-4+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package firmware-microbit-micropython has just been removed from the
Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1131727
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