Bug#411314: [Pkg-pciutils-discuss] Bug#411314: pciutils: update-pciids not working as expected

[Matt Taggart]

"Nelson A. de Oliveira" writes...

> # update-pciids
> (download happens)
> # ls -l /usr/share/misc/pci*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 431483 2006-12-27 20:29 /usr/share/misc/pci.ids
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 449172 2007-02-18 02:30 /usr/share/misc/pci.ids.gz
> 
> It should rename pci.ids as pci.ids.old (or something like that) and
> then install pci.ids.gz as pci.ids (note that pci.ids.gz actually isn't
> a gzip file).

Confirmed.
lspci does use (and prefers) the gz version (despite being not really 
compressed) and so it works as expected, which is probably why it wasn't 
noticed until now. But it's not really doing what it was supposed to which is 
support a much smaller compressed pci.ids. Also we should either update the 
non-compressed version as well or clean it up so that we don't have a stale 
copy around confusing things.

Thanks for the report,

-- 
Matt Taggart
taggart at debian.org