Re: libgphoto2 and sane-backends FTBFS with libusb2-dev
Sorry for the bad formatting, sending from mobile.
Anyways, what keeps us from just integrating a patch in the libusb2-dev Debian package and do a quick upload. Be it a normal upload or an NMU.
Adrian
> On Jul 24, 2013, at 11:47 PM, Markus Koschany <apo@gambaru.de> wrote:
>
> On 24.07.2013 12:51, Petr Salinger wrote:
>>>>> Please just fix ENODATA occurence, with updated libusb2-dev
>>>>> it suffices to build libgphoto2.
>>>>
>>>> Hmm, Steven claimed it would work with just the patched libusb.h.
>>>
>>> Sorry if I said/implied that; but I had applied Markus' ENODATA fix
>>> before testing for the other issue. So yes, both libusb2-dev and
>>> libphoto2 need fixes (in that order).
>>
>> Exact order of fixing is not necessary.
>> It is possible give-back libgphoto2 when fixed libusb2-dev
>> will be in unstable.
>>
>> The ENODATA occurence have to be fixed.
>
> Steven, Petr, first of all many thanks for your quick response and your
> patches!
>
> Right now I could successfully build libgphoto2 on kfreebsd-i386 with
> the ENODATA and libusb.h patch. I will forward the former upstream.
>
> Although I do agree with Petr that requesting a give-back would be an
> easy solution, I'm more concerned about the other libgphoto2 and
> sane-backends packages on non-kfreebsd architectures which can't migrate
> to testing at the moment.
>
> Do we have other options except waiting for a new release of libusb2-dev
> and removing the outdated kfreebsd packages from testing to make
> libgphoto2 and sane-backends swiftly migrate to testing?
>
> Regards,
>
> Markus
>
>
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