upgrade-usbids not working any more

[Uqbar]

Binary package hint: usbutils

The reference web site http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids is offline, definitely it seems.
Please give a look here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/where-on-earth-is-linux-usb-usb-ids-879594/#post4350904

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: usbutils 0.87-5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue May 10 09:33:22 2011
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=it_IT:en
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: usbutils
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Uqbar (uqbar)]

Moreover the usb.ids file appears more than once in the system:

# find / -name usb.ids -exec ls -l {} \;
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 420663 2011-05-10 09:41 /var/lib/usbutils/usb.ids
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 413960 2010-10-15 13:37 /usr/share/hwdata/usb.ids
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2011-05-07 09:12 /usr/share/misc/usb.ids -> /var/lib/usbutils/usb.ids

[Giacomo Catenazzi (cate)]

The domain linux-usb.org expired, so temporarily we don't have upstream usb.ids

[Uqbar (uqbar)]

And what about the different copies of usb.ids?

[Giacomo Catenazzi (cate)]

It seems that the new home for usb.ids is in https://usb-ids.gowdy.us/index.html (from the same mainainer).

About the difference file: I think they are some "old" leftover, when there was not real maintainer of usb.ids, so many people/package maintained a own update version.

IIRC debian has a tools to merge different ids files.

[Giacomo Catenazzi (cate)]

And the original site has restored, so the bug can be closed.

[Uqbar (uqbar)]

I opened a separate bug report (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usbutils/+bug/782110) for the multiple usb.ids files.