IMO this should be above "wishlist" importance, because the lcdproc project had to disable a lot of display drivers (such as hd44780-lcd2usb) still relying on libusb 0.1 API, while libusb- compat-0.1 probably would've solved their issues easily. An LCD that worked perfectly with Ubuntu 16.04 is now dead in 18.04.
I fail to see why Debian maintainers are so worried about introducing some corner case bugs while things are breaking completely without the compatibility wrapper. Apparently it's just a matter of packaging libusb-compat-0.1 and making it conflict with libusb-0.1 so that only either one can be used. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to libusb in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/991004 Title: Replace libusb-0.1 with libusb-compat-0.1 Status in libusb package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in libusb package in Debian: New Bug description: See http://www.libusb.org/wiki/libusb-compat-0.1 From http://www.libusb.org/: "However, if you have installed libusb-1.0 then we strongly recommend to use libusb-compat-0.1 instead of the ancient libusb-0.1 code, so that programs which use both the 0.1 API and the 1.0 API in different parts of the program, or in different libraries used by the program, will both end up using libusb-1.0 for actual device access. This is important to avoid potential conflicts between libusb-1.0 and libusb-0.1 being used by the same process." ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-20 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic-pae 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7 Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Apr 29 12:23:48 2012 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=nb_NO:nb:no_NO:no:nn_NO:nn:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, user) LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: libusb UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libusb/+bug/991004/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
