Comment 4 for bug 726202

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