Bug#724568: ITP: hidapi -- Library for communicating for USB and Bluetooth HID devices

[Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net>]

Thibaut Girka <thib@sitedethib.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:18:15PM -0400, Scott Talbert wrote:
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Owner: Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net>
>> 
>> * Package name    : hidapi
>>   Version         : 0.7.0
>>   Upstream Author : Alan Ott <alan@signal11.us>
>> * URL             : http://www.signal11.us/oss/hidapi/
>> * License         : GPLv3 or BSD
>>   Programming Lang: C
>>   Description     : Library for communicating for USB and Bluetooth
>HID devices
>> 
>> HIDAPI is a multi-platform library which allows an application to
>interface
>> with USB and Bluetooth HID-class devices on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD,
>and Mac OS
>> X.  On Linux, either the hidraw or the libusb back-end can be used. 
>There are
>> trade-offs and the functionality supported is slightly different.
>
>Hi, did you start working on it? If so, is it publicly available
>somewhere?
>I've started a package for my personal use, but as I wasn't sure it
>would
>be useful to others and that I've got increasingly limited free time, I
>haven't filed an ITP.
>
>Anyway, I've attached my current debian.tar.gz if it can be of any
>help.

Hi,

I have not started on it.  Thanks for sending your package - I will use that as a starting point.

Scott