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

[Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>]

Hey Julian,

Dropped Ian from recipients.

On Thursday 15 May 2008 07:02:38 Ian Romanick wrote:
> Kel Modderman wrote:
> | tags 478696 patch
> | thanks
> | (BCC'd debian BTS control server)
> |
> | Hi Julien and Ian,
> |
> | On Friday 09 May 2008 22:40:16 Julien Cristau wrote:
> |> Hi Ian,
> |>
> |> our pciutils maintainer decided to only install the compressed
> |> pci.ids.gz file, which breaks the code in libpciaccess that parses
> |> pci.ids.  Kel was kind enough to write up a patch to make this work (see
> |> below), would you consider something like this?  I'll try to finish up
> |> the patch if you think this is an option.
> |
> | Attached a complete patch.
> |
> | Thanks, Kel.
> 
> That patch looks fine.  Go ahead and commit it to the libpciaccess tree.
> 
> 

Please note that the pciutils Debian maintainer now decided to revert his
change which cause unrelated fuckups to other software.
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pciutils (1:3.0.0-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Uncompress pci.ids.gz in debian/rules. Closes: #479766
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Thanks, Kel.