On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:28:15PM +0200, Martin Mares wrote: >Hello, world!\n > >I am concerned with the state of the pci.ids file in the current >pciutils package. It is seriously broken: It contains no subsystem >entries, no programming interface entries and no comments including the >top comment with version and copyright information.
pci.ids has been stripped for a long time and it was done to reduce its size for the Debian-Installer. >As the upstream maintainer, I strongly believe that this problem should >be fixed for Lenny, because it makes the output of lspci too broken for >normal use. My plan is to upload a complete pci.ids to unstable but not intended for lenny unless both the D-I and release teams decide that they want something different. At least, I can put back the copyright information. >I have submitted this as Bug #496655 on August 26th, but the package >maintainer has not reacted yet. > >Is there any standard mechanism for handling such problems? > >(If the current maintainer is no more interested in maintaining >pciutils, I would volunteer to join Debian and take care of the package >myself.) > > Have a nice fortnight >-- >Martin `MJ' Mares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >http://mj.ucw.cz/ >Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth >"It is easier to port a shell than a shell script." -- Larry Wall
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