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+summary: smoke test for the lsusb profile
+execute: |
+    # lsusb works (this is a very basic test).
+    # try printing the physical USB device hierarchy as a tree
+    lsusb -t
+    # be verbose
+    lsusb -v
+    # The profile is attached based on the program path.
+    "$SPREAD_PATH"/tests/bin/actual-profile-of lsusb | MATCH 'lsusb \(enforce\)'