update usb.ids file to latest version

[Dimitrios Symeonidis]

The file /var/lib/misc/usb.ids connects vendor:device pairs with the human-readable strings in the output of lsusb...
This file is maintained at http://www.linux-usb.org/

The latest version is v 1.370 2008/08/29, while on Intrepid I still have v 1.348 2008/05/10

Please update to the latest version...

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This file is actually provided by the package usbutils (dpkg -S /var/lib/misc/usb.ids) so I am changing the package to usbutils.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

and now
# $Id: usb.ids,v 1.371 2008/09/21 11:26:37 gowdy Exp $

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

at http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids we're at:
$Id: usb.ids,v 1.374 2009/01/10 08:11:02 gowdy Exp $

while in Intrepid we're at:
$Id: usb.ids,v 1.348 2008/05/10 08:03:59 gowdy Exp $

[marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra)]

Same here, updated by running:

sudo update-usbids

then to check the new file

head /var/lib/misc/usb.ids

Hth

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

Grazie Marco!

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

how would you feel about adding a cron job, maybe weekly, to run "update-usbids"? this would make this issue redundant...