Re: svn commit: r234684 - head/lib/libusb
On Saturday 28 April 2012 15:32:58 Robert Millan wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> 2012/4/28 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>:
> >> Can you be more specific about this? We've got around 80 packages
> >> that are linking with this library. If it's really broken, we
> >> probably need to change the build dependencies and rebuild every of
> >> them.
> >
> > Are these packages built with libusb header files from the FreeBSD USB
> > library or the libusb.org library? If the libusb.org header files are
> > used, then updating the FreeBSD USB library will fix some issues. Else
> > not.
>
> I think you missunderstand what we're doing. I'll try to explain, but
> please note that I don't claim what we do is correct, in fact I have
> no clue about it! I'm merely describing:
>
> Debian GNU/kFreeBSD provides two USB libraries, libusb-0.1-4 and
> libusb2debian.
>
> libusb-0.1-4 is the library for libusb.org (currently version 0.1.12).
> It includes a patch (06_bsd.diff, attached) which was added in Jan
> 2010. Aurelien wrote this in changelog file: "Add
> debian/patches/06_bsd.diff to fix build with kFreeBSD headers 8.0.".
>
> libusb2debian is the library from FreeBSD. The "debian" suffix does
> *not* indicate that we diverged from FreeBSD ABI. It is ABI compatible
> with the one from FreeBSD (except for the fact that it's linked againt
> GNU libc, of course).
>
> Packages can be linked with libusb-0.1-4 or with libusb2debian,
> depending on the setting in their debian/control file.
Ok, I see.
> It is unclear to me why we're providing both libraries at the same
> time. libusb2debian must have been added because there's some
> limitation in libusb-0.1-4, otherwise we wouldn't have bothered to
> provide another library, but I don't know which is that limitation.
The official libusb does not support FreeBSD.
>
> If the problem with libusb-0.1-4 is so severe that it's completely
> unusable on GNU/kFreeBSD, then we should look into rebuilding
> everything with libusb2debian.
>
> ABI compatibility with libusb-0.1-4 is helpful because it makes
> transitions easier, but it doesn't resolve this kind of problem (if
> there is one).
Ok, then there is no problem about keeping the libusb2debian package as-is.
--HPS
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