linux-kernel - Re: usbutils 0.81 release

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Date:	Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:18:41 -0300
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: usbutils 0.81 release

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Kay Sievers wrote:
> >>> looks like update-usbids.sh was forgotten from EXTRA_DIST in
> >>> Makefile.am so the released tarball doesnt have the script ;(
> 
> > np, i'll send patches for both
> 
> Ah missed that, sorry. Sounds good if you add it to the tarball, but
> please don't add it to "make install", as packages should not ship
> scripts which change the installed package content, unless it's a
> config file.

Debian places it in /var/lib/usbids/ for a good reason.  So does Ubuntu.
Both have working "update-usbids" scripts (might be the one from upstream,
or something different).  They also have the original file in /usr/share, I
don't know if usbutils was changed to check /var first then /usr, or what.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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