Bug#810413: garmindev: please switch to libusb 1.0

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 08-01-16 21:54, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On 2016-01-08 20:04, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>> On 08-01-16 19:36, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>>> garmindev 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 garmindev 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.
>>
>> garmindev is no longer developed upstream, so it's better to just drop
>> this package and update qlandkartegt to not Recommend it any more.
> 
> Thanks for your fast answer. So far it is not clear when libusb 0.1 will
> be removed from the archive. Despite the new version being there for
> more than 7 years, we still have more than 70 packages using it in sid,
> including some core packages.

You'll soon have 69 packages still using libusb 0.1, I've updated
qlandkartegt and filed the RM bug for garmindev.

> I have filled this bug to start warning people that they should switch
> to the new version (hence the severity wishlist for now), however
> depending on the number of packages still using it around freeze time, I
> will decide if we keep the package for stretch or not. In the meantime
> you can keep the package in the archive and keep this bug open, someone
> might provide a patch.

I don't see a future for the garmindev package with upstream having
switched his focus to qmapshack. Keeping qlandkartegt a little longer is
good thing, but we can do without its garmin plugins I think.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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