In #328318, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn proposes that the packages that use the pci.ids PCI database find a way to use a common central copy.
If I run 'apt-file search pci.ids' on current unstable I get, hwdata: usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids lshw-common: usr/share/lshw/pci.ids pciutils: usr/share/misc/pci.ids (Cristian one of the symlinks in the pciutils package went away, and I can't find the xviddetect one you listed. Reply with more info if you want) I think that the copy provided by the pciutils source package and installed in /usr/share/misc/pci.ids should be considered the canonical system copy, since the pciutils package is responsible for updating this file and is the primary user of it. The others packages might have a reason for having their own copies of pci.ids, maybe they require a snapshot of the file that can't change out from under them for support reasons. If not they are welcome to point at the copy in /usr/share/misc/pci.ids. Maybe these other packages have included their own copy because they don't want to have to depend on the pciutils package? (maybe for size reasons? but pci.ids is 61% of the 628k package, still I guess size might still matter). For debian-installer the pciutils package provides a pciutils-udeb that just provides lspci and a stripped down version of pci.ids. Maybe this is more that hwdata and lshw-common need? If so we might be able to find a way to provide it in a way they could depend on it. Noel and Ghe, What do you think? Thanks, -- Matt Taggart [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
