Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> (2017-11-25): > Recent versions of usbutils (like the one in experimental) have > stopped using usb.ids, but rather access the udev hardware database > through libudev. While both udev and libudev have a udeb package, they > don't provide the hardware database, and I am not sure we want to add > it. > > Looking at debian-installer code, it seems that usbutils is not used > anymore and that a shell script called usb-list is used instead in > installation-report. > > So in short, could we just drop the udeb from usbutils? Hi, I looked around and found no obvious users of either lsusb (that has a replacement in busybox if needed, by the way) or the database. Feel free to drop the udeb after Alpha 2 is published. KiBi.
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