On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Xiaofan Chen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 3. How have Linux distros reacted to the libusbx fork? >> >> As was pointed out, Fedora is due to switch to libusbx and Debian is going >> to switch in Wheezy as well, as you already found out [2]. Hopefully, there >> are a few more to be publicly announced, but we haven't really had a chance >> to follow closely on what the various distribution's plans are. >> >>> Are they >>> providing both packages and marking that one conflicts with the >>> other, or are they dropping libusb in favor of libusbx >> >> For the two distros above, it is the latter. >> >>> I see a note in the mailing list >>> archives that Debian straight switched to libusbx, but how are the >>> other Linux distros reacting? >> >> That's what we're curious about too. Right now, we're concentrating on >> making sure that we avoid the pitfalls of libusb and produce a quality >> library, that distros can have the confidence to switch to and not look >> back. But what they decide is really up to them. > > Debian and Ubuntu libusb maintainer are the same person. I think > it will be soon that Ubuntu switches too.
Done for the next release. http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/libusb-1.0-0-udeb http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/libusb-1.0-0-dev > Arch Linux: still under discussion > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29999 Actually it is done, Arch Linux also switched to libusbx. https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/log/trunk?h=packages/libusbx gentoo has libusbx as well but it is not the default provider for virtual/libusb:1 yet. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux.gentoo.dev/G3V0VArx5Os -- Xiaofan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ libusbx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libusbx-devel
