Use only one usb.ids

[Pander]

Binary package hint: hwdata

Both packages hwdata and usbutils ship usb.ids files and both ship different versions of this file.

Only one package should ship this and the other package should refer to that via a symbolic link or both packages should ship identical files.

Als the file being shipped should be upgraded. Please decide which package will shipusb.ids

[Pander (pander)]

Please see also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usbutils/+bug/726204

[Pander (pander)]

See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786271

[Pander (pander)]

Advise from upstream: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786271

Fedora doesn't have /usr/share/misc/usb.ids, hwdata is the only package that
provides usb.ids.
...
Ubuntu needs to decide which usb.ids they want to keep and just drop the other
one during packaging.

[Pander (pander)]

In 12.04 LTS usbutils is shipping the file and hwdata is linking to it so this has been solved.

$ find /usr/share /var/lib/usbutils/ -name usb.ids -exec ls -l {} \;
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 May 8 2012 /usr/share/misc/usb.ids -> /var/lib/usbutils/usb.ids
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 May 8 2012 /usr/share/hwdata/usb.ids -> ../misc/usb.ids
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 461454 Dec 26 2011 /var/lib/usbutils/usb.ids

$ find /usr/share /var/lib/usbutils/ -name usb.ids -exec dpkg -S {} \;
usbutils: /usr/share/misc/usb.ids
hwdata: /usr/share/hwdata/usb.ids
usbutils: /var/lib/usbutils/usb.ids

[Pander (pander)]

Can someone close this bug as Fix Released?