linux-kernel - Re: usbutils 0.81 release

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Date:	Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:39:56 +0200
From:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
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, Apr 29, 2009 at 22:00, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
<hmh@....eng.br> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> And if your distro updates the package, it overwrites the changes you
>> did to the file, and they are lost?
>
> I suppose so, and not just for package updates: if you run update-usbids,
> the old one is overwritten AFAIK.  I didn't check the scripts, though.  But
> as a long time Debian Developer and user, that's what is implied by its
> location in /var.

Ah, ok, that sounds fine, if that is still one and the same file, and
not a "lookup in several locations and pick one" logic.

> If local admin changes are to be preserved, Debian policy mandates that it
> belongs on /etc.

Sounds a bit special, but if that is the ways it works, and people
know that, it's fine I guess.

Thanks,
Kay
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