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debian: depend on hwdata, drop upstream patch

Emil Velikov requested to merge xexaxo-guest/usbutils:use-hwdata into debian/latest

All distributions depend on hwdata, which provides a coherent version of various databases - pci, usb, pnp and co.

The hwdata project also provides a consistent path that every other project can use. Don't actively diverge from upstream + other distributions and pull hwdata as dependency for the usbutils-py sub-package.

Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov emil.l.velikov@gmail.com

As implied in the commit message, if Debian wants to have separate package for usb.ids (or pci.ids for that matter) they could split the hwdata package itself into sub-packages - just like Alpine does. But that's a task for another rainy day.

Edited by Emil Velikov

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