Hi, On 2018-01-19 17:57, Stefano Rivera wrote: > Hi Aurelien (2016.06.01_07:23:41_+1000) > > I've been prodded by timvideos people to try to get an updated usb.ids > in Debian.
Well I guess it's orthogonal to the switch to 008, we can still update usb.ids in unstable. > > Anyway I have uploaded the version 008 to experimental so that people > > who really need the new version can use it. > > Is there anything still blocking this from unstable? I don't see any > relevant open bugs. See below. > > Note that it poses additional issues: > > - the udeb package doesn't work anymore as it can't access the systemd > > database > > I see 1:009-2 dropped the udeb. Is the functionality still needed? I dropped the udeb because I got the confirmation that it is not need anymore. See: https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2017/11/msg00268.html > > - some packages depends on usbutils to be able to access usb.ids. It is > > not provided anymore in this version, so they will break. I'll try to > > identify the affected packages and start to fill bugs. > > I guess this is the crux of the issue. I couldn't see any of those, if > they've been filed, I guess they should have blocks on this. Indeed. Here is the packages that are still *potentially* affected: - dahdi-tools - hwdata - kinfocenter - libosinfo - linux - lshw So far I haven't really investigated in details how they can be changed to not use usb.ids. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
