[Bernd Zeimetz] > please explain what the reason should be to have an appstream config > for open-vm-tools. It maybe might sense to make the desktop package > available in appstream, but as it is it just doesn't make sense what > you are proposing.
My motivation is to make sure tools using the AppStream hardware mapping, like isenkram-lookup and isenkram-pkginstall, will list the package when running inside a VMWare machine. My secondary motivation is to get rid of the hardcoded list of hardware-package mappings included in the isenkram-cli package to ensure the information is available for any tool in Debian looking for the mapping in AppStream, not only the isenkram tool. You might find <URL: http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/tags/isenkram/ > in iluminating introduction to the concept. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
