Package: usbview
Severity: grave
Tags: upstream
Justification: renders package unusable
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Upon running usbview, it looks for a usbdevfs devices file in
/sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices. When this is, of course, not found, a window
is presented, asking for the correct location of the non-existend usbdevfs
devices file.
Leaving out that usbdevfs has been usbfs for probably 10 years now, and that
there is no devices 'file' related to USB at all in the /sys dir tree, if
one tries to change the "Location of usbdevfs devices file" to something
that exists, like anything in /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbfs/*, then the
application hangs until killed.
It does not work as shipped, and the only action that usbview can complete
successfully is to hang.
usbview should be removed from testing/stretch: it is completely
disfunctional. It's last documentation update was in 2002.
usbview is also unable to be built from source: it's config script dies when
testing for c++ as the config file is incorrect.... but that's another bug.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
