Bug#1141773: libpciaccess0-udeb: no longer installable: depends on non-udeb pci.ids

Roland Clobus <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:18:57 +0200

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On 10/07/2026 07:16, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Package: libpciaccess0-udeb
> Version: 0.19-1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: broken package
> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The latest upload made the udeb uninstallable, also breaking the
> following reverse dependencies:
>   - xserver-xorg-core-udeb
>   - xserver-xorg-input-evdev-udeb
>   - xserver-xorg-input-libinput-udeb
>   - xserver-xorg-video-fbdev-udeb
> 
> As far as I can tell that follows the suggestion in #944498, filed at
> severity: normal. Since it hadn't been required before, I'm wondering
> whether it would make sense to have only the (deb) library pull it, and
> for the udeb to skip it? Or would it better to just pull pci.ids into
> the installer as well?

The package pci.ids is basically only the file /usr/share/misc/pci.ids [1].
This file is used in many places [2].
I (randomly) looked at pciutils and the data (in stripped form) appears to be provided by pciutils-udeb [3], so the file is most probably already available for the installer.
For the udeb version of libpciaccess it would probably be sufficient to have a 'Suggest' again instead of a 'Depends' (or alternatively a pci-ids.udeb package)

With kind regards,
Roland Clobus

[1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/pci.ids/filelist
[2] https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=%2Fusr%2Fshare%2Fmisc%2Fpci.ids&literal=1
[3] https://sources.debian.org/src/pciutils/1:3.15.0-2/debian/rules?hl=47#L47

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