On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 09:50:03AM +0200, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: > Package: libusb-1.0 > Severity: normal > > Hello, > > The official version 1.0.9 of libusb is now available [1]. After 2 > years without an official release. Yeah!
Yes, I have seen that on the mailing list, also the upstream maintainer sent me an email to warn that. > Also note that a fork of libusb called libusbx [2] was announced just > the day before the libusb 1.0.9 release. Any relation? :-) > libusbx is supposed to be a drop-in replacement of libusb. If libusb > only has a new release every 2 years it may be a good idea to package > libusbx instead/in addition. I also seen this announce on the mailing list. So far the two haven't diverged to much, so i's probably better to wait and see what happens. Worst case we can cherry-pick important patches from libusbx into the Debian libusb package. It looks like this fork anyway has a positive impact on the development of libusb, it the sense it helps get the things moving a but more. > If you want I can co-maintain libusb. I don't think I really need help there, but if you want to it's fine with me to have a co-maintainer. > I also plan to package libusbx if the situation of libusb do not > change. Maybe I will wait after the freeze/release of Wheezy planned > for this summer. > Do you want to co-maintain libusbx? > So far, given I think we should wait a bit before doing so, I am not really interested. Regards, Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
