Comment 13 for bug 813482

Till: usb-modeswitch is currently designed only together with usb-modeswitch-data in mind: user-provided configuration snippets under /etc/usb_modewitch.d will take precedence over the ones shipped in the /usr/share/usb_modeswitch/configPack.tar.gz provided by usb-modeswitch-data. /etc/usb_modeswitch.d is not supposed to be used for packaged files.

My opinion is that those types of data (even for printers) should not be be shipped by distributions anywhere else than in their usb-modeswitch-data package: this avoids spread and duplication risk (+ the -data package is currently 29 kio, not a problem).