mig7 has a point. Over a year ago, Scott James Remnant commented that
"If your software is using /proc/bus/usb, it is broken -- you've had
over a year to change it, and you've failed to do so." But Scott's
wrong in the sense that it isn't "our" (users') software that is broken,
it is "your" (Ubuntu's) software that is broken.
Dimitrios' point is that packages should either be fixed or removed from
the repository.
usbview does not work. If you look at the upstream bug for usbview,
Debian seems to consider it Ubuntu's problem, and they are not making
upstream fixes.
apcupsd is broken in Hardy and Intrepid without manual intervention by
mounting usbfs. I've gone through that on Hardy, and will be checking
Intrepid, although I've found reports that it does work. That does not
appear to be an option with Jaunty, so unless there's a fix in there
that I'm not finding so far, there is another broken package.
Look, I have no problem with removing usbfs, but Ubuntu is not making
the necessary fixes to dependent packages, leaving users with broken
packages. Agreeing with Dimitrios -- such packages should be removed,
fixed, or moved to a broken-packages repository if you want a place to
put them aside for interested community members to take a shot at fixing
them.
A bit of good news is that libusb-1.0 can hide the change, for
applications written to use libusb instead of processing the device
space themselves.
** Also affects: apcupsd (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Could not open /proc/bus/usb/devices
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156085
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