[Pkg-running-devel] Bug#810414: Bug#810414: Bug#810414: garmin-forerunner-tools: please switch to libusb 1.0

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi Christian,

Christian PERRIER writes:

> Quoting Aurelien Jarno (aurel32 at debian.org):
>> Package: garmin-forerunner-tools
>> Version: 0.10repacked-5
>> Severity: wishlist
>> 
>> Dear Maintainer,
>> 
>> garmin-forerunner-tools has a build-depends on libusb-dev. A few years ago upstream
>> has released a new major version libusb 1.0 with a different API which
>> aims to fix design deficiencies with USB 2.0 and 3.0 in mind.
>> 
>> The old libusb 0.1 package is not supported upstream anymore and should
>> be considered deprecated.
>> 
>> If garmin-forerunner-tools supports the new libusb 1.0 library, please consider
>> switching the build-depends from libusb-dev to libusb-1.0-0-dev. If not
>> please inform upstream that porting the software to the new API is
>> recommended.
>
>
> As one would expect, switching the build dependency was not enough:
>
> checking for libusb-config... no
> configure: error: cannot build garmintools without libusb
> debian/rules:19: recipe for target 'config.status' failed
> make: *** [config.status] Error 1
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
> E: Failed autobuilding of package

I had a look at this as well and produced the patch attached.  I believe
it is fine but, for lack of a Garmin, I have no way to check it actually
works.

The code compiles fine on jessie.

Hope this helps anyway,
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