Who's still maintaining libusb-0.1?

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 06:09:50PM +0800, Eric Miao wrote:
> Hi All,
Hi,

> Sorry I brought this topic to such a massive audience. But unfortunately upower
> seems to be still linked with libusb-0.1, and thus bug 427805 and numerous other
> duplicates are affecting many users. (http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/427805)
> 
> This happens intermittently and was ignored by me previously until several hours
> ago I realized there are so many users out there affected by this, mostly Mac
> users including me, and it looks Mac is vulnerable to this possibly
> because of the
> difference in the USB devices' descriptors.
> 
> Debugged this and came up with a simple fix (a most common error), yet I don't
> know where to send except as attachment on LP. And we were also talking about
> deprecating libusb-0.1 in -M, yet this seems to be still useful for
> Lucid users at
> this moment.

Deprecating libusb-0.1 it's a huge task, a lot of software still depends
on it (and the API is quite different), beside the fact it is almost 
unmaintained upstream.

Last time I tried libusb-compat was not the same quality as libusb-0.1,
it introduced more problem than it solved. Maybe it has changed in the
meanwhile.

Cheers,
Aurelien

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