[Pkg-running-devel] Bug#810395: Bug#810395: antpm: please switch to libusb 1.0

[Kristof Ralovich]

On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Christian PERRIER <bubulle at debian.org> wrote:
> tags 810395 upstream
> tags 810395 forwarded
> thanks
>
>
> Quoting Aurelien Jarno (aurel32 at debian.org):
>> Package: antpm
>> Version: 1.17-2
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> antpm 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 antpm 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.
>
> Kristof, is there any chance that you have a look at this.
>
> I tried simply using src/cmake/Findlibusb-1.0.cmake instead of
> FindLIBUSB.cmake and chance the #include in SerialUSB.cpp to include
> libusb.h instead of usb.h, but that fails, as one would expect.
>
> I don't have the needed skills to fix this myself, I'm afraid....
>
>

I will take a look at the libusb-1.0 API to forward port antpm to.