On Sep 04, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.
I think that part of the rationale is that eventually HAL will go away
replaced by udev and programs like this (e.g. look at the keyboard stuff).
On Sep 04, Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> wrote:
> 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.
So you believe that the upstream maintainers are incompetent and
released something which is unreliable by design?
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ciao,
Marco
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