Thanks for reporting this and spotting the applicable commit! Since wily is EOL, your proposal isn't so visible, so I converted it into two debdiffs (for zesty and yakkety) and subscribed ubuntu-sponsors.
** Also affects: language-selector (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: language-selector (Ubuntu Yakkety) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: usb-modeswitch (Ubuntu Yakkety) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** No longer affects: language-selector (Ubuntu Yakkety) ** No longer affects: language-selector (Ubuntu) ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #810104 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=810104 ** Also affects: usb-modeswitch (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=810104 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: usb-modeswitch (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: usb-modeswitch (Ubuntu) Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: usb-modeswitch (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) ** Changed in: usb-modeswitch (Ubuntu Yakkety) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: usb-modeswitch (Ubuntu Yakkety) Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: usb-modeswitch (Ubuntu Yakkety) Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) ** Tags added: patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1639607 Title: No longer works in Yakkety To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-modeswitch/+bug/1639607/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs