On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Emmanuel Blot <eblot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The switch from libusb to libusbx is not confusing -on its own- to me.
>
> However, IMHO it is quite fuzzy to have a module that currently
> installs on Wheezy version 1.0.11, whereas libusb official latest
> release is 1.0.9...

 No surprise to see libusbx 1.0.11 there if you use Debian Stable
which often lag significantly behind. And the Debian package
page at least mentions the source package is from libusbx.

http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libusb-1.0-0

>
> Moreover, the Debian package web page
> http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libusb-1.0-0 shows that "homepage"
> is "www.linux-usb.org", not libusbx.org.

That is a mistake on the Debian libusbx packager's part.

> You have to know the whole story of libusb to understand
> what's going on there…

I can understand that. The fork is an unfortunate one
but there is no way out. The reason is clearly stated here.
http://libusbx.org/



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