[Pkg-pciutils-discuss] Bug#411314: compressed pci.ids issues

[Matt Taggart]

Matthew Wilcox writes...

> The problem is that I was trying to transition the Debian package to
> support compressed pci.ids without breaking the packages linked against
> libpci.  You need to delete these two lines from debian/rules:
> 
>         gunzip debian/pciutils/usr/share/misc/pci.ids.gz
>         perl -pi -e 's/PCI_COMPRESSED_IDS=.*$$/PCI_COMPRESSED_IDS=/' \
> 		                debian/pciutils/usr/bin/update-pciids

Yeah I understand why you did that, but the code in update-pciids.sh is still 
wrong about where it saves things. This is what's causing #411314

> > 2.) The file at "http://pciids.sourceforge.net/v2.2/pci.ids.gz" is not 
> > gzipped.
> 
> It is.  Really.

Hmm, I must have been on crack. I thought I tested with wget last night. I 
know that they were appearing uncompressed with firefox, but that must just be 
firefox doing that. Sorry for the false alarm.

> So Martin, there's nothing to worry about here.

#1 and #3 from my email are still valid I think.

Thanks,

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Matt Taggart
taggart at debian.org