ACK: [SRU][Jammy/Lunar/Mantic][PATCH 0/1] usbip: error: failed to open /usr/share/hwdata//usb.ids (LP: #2039439)

[Tim Gardner]

On 10/17/23 5:52 AM, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
> [Impact]
> 
> usbip from linux-tools tries to access /usr/share/hwdata/usb.ids which is provided by the hwdata package which is not installed by default.
> 
> $ usbip list -l
> usbip: error: failed to open /usr/share/hwdata//usb.ids
>   - busid 1-1.1.1 (0424:7800)
>     unknown vendor : unknown product (0424:7800)
> 
> [Test Case]
> 
> $ apt install linux-tools-<flavor>
> $ usbip list -l
>   - busid 1-1.1.1 (0424:7800)
>     Microchip Technology, Inc. (formerly SMSC) : unknown product (0424:7800)
> 
> [Fix]
> 
> Make hwdata a dependency of linux-tools-common.
> 
> [Regression Potential]
> 
> A trivial package (hwdata) is installed as a dependency. Can't think of any problems this could cause other than a theoretical package installation failure.
> 
> Juerg Haefliger (1):
>    UBUNTU: [Packaging] Make linux-tools-common depend on hwdata
> 
>   debian.master/control.stub.in | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
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Tim Gardner
Canonical, Inc