[arch-dev-public] libusbx as replacement for libusb

[Tobias Powalowski]

Am 25.05.2012 15:21, schrieb Tom Gundersen:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Tobias Powalowski
> <tobias.powalowski at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi got this feature request:
>> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29999
>>
>> - fedora ditched the libusb usage in favour of the libusbx project.
> Seems Debian have done/will do the same.
>
>> http://www.libusbx.org
>>
>> Shall we move to this too?
> I am not very familiar with the background story, but from what I can
> gather from libusb-devel[0], it seems that the fork was done for a
> good reason, has lots of support, and no counterarguments have (as far
> as I could find at least) been presented by the libusb maintainer.
>
> To sum up, the main complaints were: libusb was not begin released for
> more than two years (it has now finally been released, after the fork
> happened), and the maintainer was seen as hostile to new
> contributions.
>
> Assuming the impression I got is correct, I would be in favor of switching.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom
>
> [0]: <http://libusb.6.n5.nabble.com/libusb-is-dead-long-live-libusbx-td5651413.html>
replaces=('libusb1' 'libusb')
provides=('libusb')
would that be ok in PKGBUILD?

-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org


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