Hardware database schema doesn't support linkage to devices nor packages

Right, the "software context" of a test needs indeed a better specification, but I think it is not sufficient to list packages only. A graphics card for example may be controlled by different Xorg drivers; a Postscript printer often understands PCL too, moreover, Gostscript provides more than one PCL driver; a scanner might be supported by more than one Sane backend.

I also agree that the term "driver" is not very precise. The main idea is that it is not enough to specify a package, but some component of a package, often called "driver", that is used for the test, because possible problems are often driver specific (or backend specific or thingy-specific or however else we might call it). Any suggestion for a better name than "driver"?

Hence we should specify both the package and the driver/backend/component/... of a package that is involved in a test.

While we can indeed reference most packages by their ID as listed in the <software> section of a submission, I am not sure, if this is possible in all cases. Some people for example install a printer or scanner driver provided by the device manufacturer as a tarball; others might install a package from the source code.

So I propose this schema change:

                                    <element name="driver">
                                        <choice>
                                            <attribute name="package_id">
                                                <data type="integer">
                                                    <except>
                                                        <value/>
                                                    </except>
                                                </data>
                                            </attribute>
                                            <attribute name="package_name">
                                                <text/>
                                            </attribute>
                                        </choice>
                                        <attribute name="name">
                                            <text/>
                                        </attribute>
                                    </element>

Examples for valid tags:

    <driver package_id="2" name="ipw3945" />
    <driver package_name="samsung_printer_package" name="whatever" />

We've removed the hardware database, so this is no longer applicable.