Your message dated Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:18:22 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#686461: libusb: Future plans for libusb-0.1 has caused the Debian Bug report #686461, regarding libusb: Future plans for libusb-0.1 to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Source: libusb Source-Version: 2:0.1.12-20 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, the latest upstream version of libusb-0.1 is 0.1.12 (released in March 2006); to make the legacy applications work with the current libusb-1.0, a compatibilty layer package called libusb-compat-0.1 has been released on the libusb upstream site; meanwhile, Debian has switched from libusb-1.0 (http://www.libusb.org/) to its fork called libusbx (http://libusbx.org/). What are the future plans for the legacy libusb-0.1 library support in Debian? -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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--- Begin Message ---On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 12:25:42AM +0400, Bob Bib wrote: > Source: libusb > Source-Version: 2:0.1.12-20 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: upstream > > Dear Maintainer, > > the latest upstream version of libusb-0.1 is 0.1.12 (released in March 2006); > > to make the legacy applications work with the current libusb-1.0, > a compatibilty layer package called libusb-compat-0.1 has been released on > the libusb upstream site; > > meanwhile, Debian has switched from libusb-1.0 (http://www.libusb.org/) to > its fork called libusbx (http://libusbx.org/). > > What are the future plans for the legacy libusb-0.1 library support in Debian? > The plan is to continue to maintain the legacy libusb-0.1 library as long as they are many package using it. When this number is getting low (let's say below 50 packages), we'll force the remaining packages to use the libusb/libusbx 1.0. There is no plan to use the libusb-compat-0.1 library so far, as it seems to not be fully compatible with the original library. For example libftdi is not able to use the async mode with libusb-0.1. That's why we prefer to fix bugs in libusb-0.1 instead of using libusb-compat-0.1 (and Debian carries a few patches there). As I guess the point of the bug was to ask the status, and it is given in this mail, I am closing it. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net
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