Hi, On Fri, 19 Jan 2018, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > - some packages depends on usbutils to be able to access usb.ids. It is > > > not provided anymore in this version, so they will break. I'll try to > > > identify the affected packages and start to fill bugs. > > > > I guess this is the crux of the issue. I couldn't see any of those, if > > they've been filed, I guess they should have blocks on this. > > Indeed. Here is the packages that are still *potentially* affected: > - dahdi-tools > - hwdata > - kinfocenter > - libosinfo > - linux > - lshw > > So far I haven't really investigated in details how they can be changed > to not use usb.ids.
This change can't be done in buster this late. Still it would be better to have the latest upstream release in buster. As discussed on IRC, I would like to suggest to re-introduce the latest usb.ids file in the package for the time being and then upload version 010 to unstable. The current buster version dates back to 2015 and there have been a few improvements. I was pinged by a Kali developer when they noticed this: https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au/issues/77#issuecomment-457700405 I wonder if I should file this suggestion as a new bug report. If you think it's useful, please let me know. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: https://debian-handbook.info/get/
