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Include modaliases in AppStream metadata

Ben Hutchings requested to merge benh/firmware-nonfree:modalias into master

There is a need for modaliases in the AppStream metadata, as the mappings from devices to modules and firmware filenames are not always readily available. See the discussion around https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2021/03/msg00048.html.

The package build process also doesn't necessarily have those mappings readily available, so this adds a cache of the needed information to the source package (debian/modinfo.json), and a script to update that (debian/bin/update-modinfo).

This updates debian/bin/gencontrol.py to map each binary package's firmware filenames to module names and then modaliases, and to substitute those into templates to generate the AppStream metadata.

Edited by Ben Hutchings

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