<div dir="ltr">Have you made an FFe bug asking for the update? That would help.</div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:30 PM, UAB „Bona Mens“ <<a href="mailto:paslaugos@openoffice.lt" target="_blank">paslaugos@openoffice.lt</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi Mathieu and other developers, who can update usb-modeswitch in Ubuntu, I'm writing to you because Ubuntu has an important problem for today's users - lots of 3G/mobile USB modems are poorly supported in Ubuntu because of outdated usb-modeswitch (2.1.0) :( See bug #1308895, bug #1328412, bug #1192297, bug #1354823 and other bugs at <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-modeswitch" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-modeswitch</a> and <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-modeswitch-data" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-modeswitch-data</a> It seems, the main problem appears because of Ubuntu improvement - Ubuntu developers ported usb_modeswitch_dispatcher to C and because of this every new usb-modeswitch release can't be simply synced from Debian, see bug <a href="https://launchpad.net/bugs/1280546" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/bugs/1280546</a> : Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu-tl) wrote on 2014-04-03: #6 > it should not be blindly synced to the archive; we've ported it to C for a good reason being in the boot sequence; having an impact from loading a Tcl interpreter for just one tcl script... I agree with Mathieu, but why Debian doesn't use Ubuntu's ported usb_modeswitch_dispatcher ? New upstream versions of usb-modeswitch (2.2.0) and usb-modeswitch-data (20140529) released 3 months ago and were packaged in Debian unstable since June! Ubuntu's usb_modeswitch_dispatcher should be patched againt because of introduction of parameter "HuaweiNewMode", wrapping the standard bulk message for all newer Huawei devices and support for generic fallback config files, combined with OS switch (per vendor ID). Lots of other Huawei related issues, like bug #1308895 are fixed in updated usb-modeswitch (2.2.0+repack0-2) and usb-modeswitch-data (20140529-1) packages in Debian unstable. Please merge usb-modeswitch 2.2.0+repack0-2 package from Debian unstable to Ubuntu Utopic. I think it would be nice to to use /run as TMPDIR for all three init systems, see <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=751271" target="_blank">https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=751271</a> <a href="https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/debian/sid/usb-modeswitch/sid" target="_blank">https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/debian/sid/usb-modeswitch/sid</a> Here is debian/changelog: usb-modeswitch (2.2.0+repack0-2) unstable; urgency=medium * Add patch to set TMPDIR to /run, add Build-Depends version constraint to pull a libjim supporting the setting of TMPDIR (Closes: #751271) usb-modeswitch (2.2.0+repack0-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New 2.2.0 upstream release - Introduction of parameter "HuaweiNewMode", wrapping the standard bulk message for all newer Huawei devices; - Support for generic fallback config files, combined with OS switch (per vendor ID); * Repack the upstream tarball: - Drop the code copy of jimtcl. * Bump usb-modeswitch-data depends to 20140529 * Update VCS-* fields to canonical form -- Didier Raboud Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:21:08 +0200 And here is usb-modeswitch-data debian/changelog: <a href="http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/u/usb-modeswitch-data/unstable_changelog" target="_blank">http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/u/usb-modeswitch-data/unstable_changelog</a> -- IT paslaugos įmonėms, prekyba kompiuteriais su Linux OS: UAB „Bona Mens" - <a href="http://bonamens.lt" target="_blank">http://bonamens.lt</a> <a href="http://tinklas.eu/prekyba" target="_blank">http://tinklas.eu/prekyba</a> Tel.: <a href="tel:%2B370-614-53085" value="+37061453085">+370-614-53085</a> Laisva programinė įranga verslui ir namams: <a href="http://baltix.lt" target="_blank">http://baltix.lt</a> <a href="http://openoffice.lt" target="_blank">http://openoffice.lt</a> -- IT paslaugos įmonėms, prekyba kompiuteriais su Linux OS: UAB „Bona Mens“ - <a href="http://bonamens.lt" target="_blank">http://bonamens.lt</a> <a href="http://tinklas.eu/prekyba" target="_blank">http://tinklas.eu/prekyba</a> Tel.: 8-37-451316 ; mob. tel. <a href="tel:%2B370-614-53085" value="+37061453085">+370-614-53085</a> Laisva programinė įranga verslui ir namams: <a href="http://baltix.lt" target="_blank">http://baltix.lt</a> <a href="http://openoffice.lt" target="_blank">http://openoffice.lt</a> -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a> </blockquote></div> </div>