[BRLTTY] brltty: Please announce supported hardware using AppStream
Dave Mielke
dave at mielke.cc
Wed Sep 14 12:41:54 EDT 2016
[quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2016/09/13 at 14:13 +0200]
>We have received this in Debian. That could be an addition to Autostart
>perhaps indeed?
>
>From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com>
>The brltty 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.
Petter: I have a couple of questions.
What should our file name be (brltty.appstream.xml, brltty.appdata.xml, etc)?
Is it okay if we just provide the v and p parts of the modalias, or are more of
its elements required?
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