On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 22:09:45 +1000, Kel Modderman wrote: > Package: libpciaccess-dev > Version: 0.10-1 > Severity: minor > > pciutils provided /usr/share/misc/pci.ids up until version 1:3.0.0-2, now > it installs a gzip compressed file to /usr/share/misc/pci.ids.gz. > Would the pciutils maintainer be so kind to not break his reverse dependencies every so often? I believe that would be appreciated.
> pci_device_get_vendor_name() and pci_device_get_device_name() must rely on > populate_vendor() from src/common_device_name.c to open > /usr/share/misc/pci.ids > for parsing. Obviously this is failing now that the file is compressed and has > a different filepath. > > The 2 options i see available are: > > 1) Asking pciutils maintainer nicely to ship the plaintext pci.ids > file, though I can guess that he probably would prefer it to be > compressed as it grows over time I'm not sure I can manage to ask nicely, sorry. > 2) Patch libpciaccess to support either situation, support gzip file streams > and depend on associated libs to do that > Patches welcome :) Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
