Bug#810404: dahdi-tools: please switch to libusb 1.0

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 07:36:10PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Package: dahdi-tools
> Version: 1:2.10.2-2
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> dahdi-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 dahdi-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.

Latest version of dahdi-tools (2.11) supports both (we still need to
support Centos 5, that doesn't have libusb1.0. Libusb 0.1 works quite
poorly on many recent devices) and defaults to 1.0. Should be in Stretch
soon.

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