On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 02:03:10PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Faidon Liambotis] > > I know very little about AppStream, but this proposal doesn't make sense > > to me. > > Perhaps > <URL: > http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/121_packages_in_Debian_mapped_to_hardware_for_automatic_recommendation.html > > > explain a bit how the AppStream hardware information work. > > The initial patch was based on udev rules, which in my experience > generally is a good indicator of hardware specific packages that should > announce their supported hardware using AppStream. I do not know > esptool enough to say what make sense or not in this specific case.
++ <modalias>usb:v0421p0001d*ic02isc02ipFFin*</modalias> ++ <modalias>usb:v0421p0007d*ic02isc02ipFFin*</modalias> ++ <modalias>usb:v0421p000Ed*ic02isc02ipFFin*</modalias> ++ <modalias>usb:v0421p002Fd*ic02isc02ipFFin*</modalias> ... these are USB IDs of Nokia phones. Clearly offering esptool for them makes zero sense. Wherever the data came from, taking it as the truth seems like a bad plan. Chris
