Hi,

On Wed, 2022-03-09 at 12:35 -0500, Robbie Harwood wrote:
> Hi, today I went to build grub2 in rawhide and got this:
> 
>     DEBUG util.py:444:  No matching package to install: 'libusb-devel'
> 
> grub2 has a `BuildRequires: libusb-devel`, and suddenly that package
> doesn't exist anymore.  libusb was apparently dead.package'd two days
> ago.
> 
> So this is sudden, and I want to check what's going on here.  I would
> have expected a change proposal about this[1], or at least some email about
> what's going on, what we're expected to do, etc..

Yes, I can't remember why, but apparently I forgot to do some of the
changes that were approved back then. As such, a few days ago I went
ahead and made the switch.

This meant getting rid of libusbx and also making the switch from
libusb to libusb-compat-0.1.

> Speaking of which, what *are* we expected to do?  Aleksei on IRC
> suggested that the preferred solution is to swap the BuildRequires to
> pkgconfig(libusb) - is that right?  Is this going to stick around, or is
> it going away too?

Ideally you should switch BuildRequires to pkgconfig(libusb-1.0) I
would say. Many packages will support building against the newer libusb
API just fine. The libusb (now libusb-compat-0.1) package is just a
small wrapper library that bridges some API differences.

Benjamin

> 1: I did find
>    
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Rename_libusb_packages_and_deprecated_old_api
>    after going digging, but that's for F35 and was marked as done - so
>    no further change from it was expected, if this is somehow related to it.


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