[AppStream] Adding another component specifier for variant

[Richard Hughes]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 14:25, Matthias Klumpp <matthias at tenstral.net> wrote:
> Maybe "self" or "this" would have worked as well?

Yes, either of those work.

> Is there ever a case that this restriction is applied on a per-release
> basis, so that firmware isn't actually updated to a newer version
> after a certain point? (I hope not, that feels like a flaw, but yet I
> still wonder...)

It's more to use when the "old" firmware has a bug that prevents
updates to the new firmware.

> I thought about that, and name_variant seems to imply it's another
> variant of the <name/> tag, i.e. an alternative name.
> <name_variant_suffix/> would be absolutely clear for everyone

That works for me, if that has your blessing I'll respin my patches.

Richard.