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hwdata package

  1. Bug #1755490
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 1755490

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Dariusz Gadomski (dgadomski) wrote :

I have just verified both: bionic (15.04.1+18.04.20180413-0ubuntu1.2) and cosmic (15.04.1+18.04.20180413-0ubuntu3) u-s-d packages.

In both cases it calculates the diagonal correctly or puts the model name if the real dimensions are not available.

However, there is a problem I didn't see coming: hwdata is not installed by default on bionic & cosmic, so the PNP codes are not resolved to vendor names, e.g. u-s-d returned DEL for Dell and GSM for LG Electronics.

What are your thoughts on this Seb? Is it worth pulling in hwdata as dependency of u-s-d?
It's clearly safer than changing the implementation to use systemd's hwdb.