Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> I still can't fathom why someone decided that udev should be responsible for
> translating PCI IDs and USB IDs into text strings. This smells of crazy.
Yes. Any device specific matching should use vid:pid. How about just
disabling the /lib/udev/{pci,usb}-db helpers alltogether to avoid ever
getting any users of this info in Debian? It will always be too
unreliable to be useful anyway, regardless of /usr availability.
Bjørn