Package: cheese Version: 3.21.92-1 Severity: wishlist User: p...@hungry.com Usertags: appstream-modalias
Hi. The cheese 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 >. It would be great if you could add an appstream metainfo file to the cheese package, with content similar to this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <component> [...] <provides> <modalias>usb:v*p*d*dc*dsc*dp*ic0Eisc01ip*</modalias> <modalias>lkmodule:videodev</modalias> </provides> </component> The idea is to map cheese to all USB video cameras and everything working with V4L2. If there are other hardware ids also supported by the package, please add those too. :) -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
