Replacing libusb1 with libusbx

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Tue May 22 12:55:46 UTC 2012


On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 13:44 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I plan to replace libusb1 with libusbx, libusx is a fork of and
> a drop in replacement for libusb1.
> 
> The libusbx fork was started by various libusb-1.0 developers
> (almost all of them *), because the official maintainer of libusb-1.0
> refused to do any stable / tarbal releases for over 18 months and in
> general was very slow with merging new developments and fixes.

I'm guessing you're talking about Daniel Drake. Why didn't you ask him
if you could get commit access instead? I took over libfprint and
fprintd releases, and got them moved to freedesktop.org last year.

Cheers



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