Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > So why exactly should we support this breakage in udev, again? If what it > takes is to move the usb and pci ID databases to /, so be it. When compared > to our kernel tarballs, they're small, less than 1MB for both of them. Agreed. Moving usb.ids and pci.ids to / (/lib/hwdata was a proposed location) seems currently the best solution to me. > As for the update-usbids and update-pciids problems, we can certainly > repackage this stuff in volatile and drop the two utilities as well the /var > issue it generates. Symlinks will provide all backwards-compatibility that > is needed. I believe we should do this regardless, but we better decide if > these databases have to live under / or /usr first. I'd also vote for removing update-usbids and update-pciids. Those tools looks broken to me anyway. given that a package upgrade will overwrite an updated ids file again. Aurel's concern was, if usbutils (and pciutils for that matter) were acceptable for volatile and Luk (on debian-release) acknowledged that this package would be ok for volatile and stable point releases. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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