Interest in Sane or LibUSB

[Kevin Kofler]

Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Since libusb-0.1.x is deprecated, I doubt we'll see fixes for this
> issue. I'm not sure if all packages relying on libusb in Fedora are
> ready for libusb-1.0 as it is an ABI change. However, there is a
> libusb-compat-0.1 package to make the transition easy. I haven't tried
> compiling libusb-1.0 in MinGW yet though. I haven't found anyone who has
> so I'm not sure how well it will compile. When more free time comes up
> I'll attempt a build.

Fedora already has a separate libusb1 package with libusb 1.0, used by the
new fprint (fingerprint reading) stack.

        Kevin Kofler