Re: usbutils 0.81 release

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 22:00, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
<hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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. ÂI didn't check the scripts, though. ÂBut
> as a long time Debian Developer and user, that's what is implied by its
> location in /var.

Ah, ok, that sounds fine, if that is still one and the same file, and
not a "lookup in several locations and pick one" logic.

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

Sounds a bit special, but if that is the ways it works, and people
know that, it's fine I guess.

Thanks,
Kay
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