Bug#478696: [libpciaccess-dev] unable to parse vendor/device information from pci.ids.gz

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 22:09:45 +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:

> Package: libpciaccess-dev
> Version: 0.10-1
> Severity: minor
> 
> pciutils provided /usr/share/misc/pci.ids up until version 1:3.0.0-2, now
> it installs a gzip compressed file to /usr/share/misc/pci.ids.gz.
> 
Would the pciutils maintainer be so kind to not break his reverse
dependencies every so often?  I believe that would be appreciated.

> pci_device_get_vendor_name() and pci_device_get_device_name() must rely on
> populate_vendor() from src/common_device_name.c to open /usr/share/misc/pci.ids
> for parsing. Obviously this is failing now that the file is compressed and has
> a different filepath.
> 
> The 2 options i see available are:
> 
> 1) Asking pciutils maintainer nicely to ship the plaintext pci.ids
> file, though I can guess that he probably would prefer it to be
> compressed as it grows over time

I'm not sure I can manage to ask nicely, sorry.

> 2) Patch libpciaccess to support either situation, support gzip file streams
> and depend on associated libs to do that
> 
Patches welcome :)

Cheers,
Julien