Re: libmtp-dev dependency issue on kfreebsd
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 06:27:54PM +0200, Modestas Vainius wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 libmtp-dev 1.1.6-20-g1b9f164-1
>
> Hello,
>
> Ketvirtadienis 14 Lapkritis 2013 03:12:20 rašė:
> > Package: libgphoto2-2-dev
> > Version: 2.4.14-2.3
> > Severity: serious
> > Tags: patch
> > User: debian-bsd@lists.debian.org
> > Usertags: kfreebsd
> > Control: block 725951 by -1
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > The recent change to the libusb dependency of libgphoto2-2-dev created
> > an odd problem on kfreebsd when trying to build gvfs:
> >
> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=gvfs
> >
> > > gvfs build-depends on:
> > > - libgphoto2-2-dev (>= 2.4.0)
> > > libgphoto2-2-dev depends on:
> > > - libusb-1.0-0-dev | --virtual-libusb-1.0-0-dev
> > > gvfs build-depends on:
> > > - libmtp-dev (>= 1.1.0)
> > > libmtp-dev depends on:
> > > - libusb-dev
> > > libusb2-dev conflicts with:
> > > - libusb-dev
> >
> > kfreebsd has its own libusb-dev different from the implementations
> > available on linux.
>
> I wouldn't be so sure that libgphoto2 is the one which needs to be fixed. In
> my opinion, here libmtp-dev does the wrong thing. libusb-1.0 home page[1]
> says:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> FreeBSD 8 and above include a FreeBSD-specific reimplementation of the
> libusb-1.0 API, so your applications will probably work there too. The source
> code for this library can be found here.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Having in mind that libusb-0.1 is deprecated, it seems that the whole libusb*
> packaging structure (i.e. libusb-1.0-0-dev virtual package on kFreeBSD) in
> Debian is meant to establish that libusbx should be used on Linux while
> libusb2 from freebsd-libs should be used on kFreeBSD. I might be wrong so I'm
> also CC'ing libusbx and kFreeBSD maintainers. I will reassign the bug back to
> libgphoto2-2-dev if that's the case.
This is exactly what I suggested in bug #729249.
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