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SubjectRe: usbutils 0.81 release
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.

--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
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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