[Pkg-gtkpod-devel] Bug#742516: Please use udev monitor to discover new devices

[Michael Biebl]

Package: usbmuxd
Version: 1.0.8-3
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

today's upload of usbmuxd prompted me to look
/lib/udev/rules.d/85-usbmuxd.rules which runs
RUN+="/usr/bin/pkill -x -SIGUSR2 usbmux" whenever a new device is
attached. The usbmuxd triggers a new device discovery whenever it
receives that signal.

Imho it would be much nicer to drop that kill invocation from the udev
rule and make the daemon listen on hardware changes via libudev using a
udev_monitor [0]

[0] https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/libudev/libudev-udev-monitor.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages usbmuxd depends on:
ii  adduser       3.113+nmu3
ii  libc6         2.18-4
ii  libplist1     1.10-1
ii  libusb-1.0-0  2:1.0.17-1+b1
ii  libusbmuxd2   1.0.8-3

usbmuxd recommends no packages.

usbmuxd suggests no packages.

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