On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 10:27:54PM -0800, Matt Taggart wrote: > Today I rediscovered a really old bug I had participated in, #328318. > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=328318 > > It points out multiple packages deliver copies of pci.ids. > > This is still the case, on my jessie system as of 2014-12-14: > > $ apt-file search pci.ids > fusioninventory-agent: /usr/share/fusioninventory/pci.ids > hwdata: /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids > libosinfo-1.0-0: /usr/share/libosinfo/db/pci.ids > nvidia-driver-bin: /usr/share/nvidia/pci.ids > pciutils: /usr/share/misc/pci.ids
At least in the hwdata and libosinfo cases these are symlinks to the pciutils versions. > Maybe they have reasons for maintaining separate copies? > pciutils provides the update-pciids util, maybe their packages would > benefit from a newer canonical copy of pci.ids (or maybe it would break > things?). I agree, I think symlinks are fine though. Cheers, -- Guido > > -- > Matt Taggart > [email protected] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
