Package: xserver-xorg-video-vmware Version: 1:13.1.0-2 Severity: wishlist User: p...@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
