Hi On 2016-01-08, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Package: lirc > Version: 0.9.0~pre1-1.2 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > lirc has a build-depends on libusb-dev. A few years ago upstream > has released a new major version libusb 1.0 with a different API which > aims to fix design deficiencies with USB 2.0 and 3.0 in mind. > > The old libusb 0.1 package is not supported upstream anymore and should > be considered deprecated. [...]
[ this will be basically the same answer as for libftdi1, so feel free to skip reading one ] What is the rough time frame you have in mind for removing libusb-0.1-4 from unstable? I'm asking because there are two options: - pushing the current upstream version, with a transition, involving around 30 rdepends, needing sourceful uploads for most of them, and a rather complex device specific config migration, plus some pending packaging work or - backporting (looks to be pretty reasonable) the necessary changes for libusb 1.0 to lirc 0.9.0 (or 0.9.1, which 'only' needs the config migration, but not the library transition and the corresponding transition slot). Depending on your schedule, I can look into the targeted backports, but naturally I'd prefer to avoid that (as long as lirc won't be one of the final blockers). Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
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