Re: usbutils 0.81 release

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Kay Sievers wrote:
> And if your distro updates the package, it overwrites the changes you
> did to the file, and they are lost?

I suppose so, and not just for package updates: if you run update-usbids,
the old one is overwritten AFAIK.  I didn't check the scripts, though.  But
as a long time Debian Developer and user, that's what is implied by its
location in /var.

If local admin changes are to be preserved, Debian policy mandates that it
belongs on /etc.

-- 
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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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