On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
