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 7:02 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> 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>

Forgot to mention your BugLink is corrupted.
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Tim Gardner
Canonical, Inc