[Andreas Beckmann] > Disclaimer: I have no clue what AppStream is or how it works.
Perhaps <URL: http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/tags/isenkram/ > can be illuminating? > Shouldn't all the driver series packages support this? Most likely. > Since the different driver series are co-installable, they need to use > different file names at the installation location to not conflict with > each other. Yes. > ++ <modalias>pci:v000010DEd000006FDsv*</modalias> > > isn't that a wildcard matching all nvidia gpus? According to /usr/share/misc/pci.ids it is this entry: 10de NVIDIA Corporation 06fd G98 [Quadro NVS 295] > Shouldn't that be restricted to the ones supported by this driver? Yes. And if you know more hardware supported by the driver, it should be listed too. :) > For patch simplification, don't create the new file with a patch but > place it in debian/. As I believe in general the AppStream metadata XML files should be shared across Linux distributions and provided from upstream, I tend to create a upstreamable patch for the change. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
