From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SZqta-0005dM-Fy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 May 2012 21:57:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC16EE07C3; Wed, 30 May 2012 21:57:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95575E079B for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 21:56:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vapier.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BE281B4022 for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 21:56:22 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-libs/libusbx:1 the default provider for virtual/libusb:1 (for ~arch) Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 17:56:23 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.4.0; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <4FC26E9E.9070807@gentoo.org> <201205301720.50033.vapier@gentoo.org> <20120530214118.19008.qmail@stuge.se> In-Reply-To: <20120530214118.19008.qmail@stuge.se> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1504003.OEQe7VZV3f"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201205301756.24083.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: f4e729b3-d682-42be-a857-2684b3d5c52b X-Archives-Hash: 5bb8f78e79d9e2d2efb2245c8493c60a --nextPart1504003.OEQe7VZV3f Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wednesday 30 May 2012 17:41:18 Peter Stuge wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > Fedora rawhide and ArchLinux switched to libusbx and followed > > > suit in our virtual/libusb:1. > >=20 > > sad that we can't get these things merged. maybe we need to > > convince dsd to hand over the reigns ? >=20 > It seems that some don't know that dsd made me co-maintainer in > libusb some months after he created the 1.0.8 release. >=20 > I've been working hard on libusb since before 1.0.8. I joined libusb > in 2004 and was already asked by Johannes (the 0.1 author) to be > maintainer in 2007, but declined. >=20 > The fork is a long story. I commented in the Arch ticket for their > switch, and the libusbx lead maintainer replied there today. I also > had a chat with Samuli and marienz@g.o on IRC about keeping libusb > as the default provider for virtual/libusb:1. >=20 > I'm working on a blog post with what I think are some key facts for > everyone with an interest in the libusb API. The fork is, like the > libusb-1.0.9 release, a month old, and of course there was a sudden > surge in activity when Hans (Fedora libusb package maintainer and > now libusbx maintainer) blogged about the fork, which I wasn't quite > prepared for. Hold on, more information coming shortly. thanks! =2Dmike --nextPart1504003.OEQe7VZV3f Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJPxpeIAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBt9YQAOB2g0Nt4wDNnSwIB6xaO8RA rDDq6jRjN0CZWB7lSfkwp+u++9r0DF9PqIY16ohSp29K3gsnY/89SIWXSzxVGIdZ 91MIsbQOZ51zSuXC3EMT9TOAb7CCkp6Kukjas4nOm/wV/k2wnfX6SnHIYKYJbCIS OPPBbfLi/3p66oyNmx3SwrkuipfIchcbljwkEbSaVE7RGG4JP33bF4rFAa2/YrER +WdwOwGcGU5+usk7wJD6icwIYME97z2kKl8Kc68GSZgcS1aB0esQscWF2CVffOdL qh687sVWwtyAi8F1eqYHHF625hQu6HtedSA/MAeomcrt5GaZxzx8poahzdcmqN4n SR6CfgS5PKCkijWyO/PFF29E2vwqcZd+SBP5bmSCAZNZf1H9sZeMtfEt7Wn8FKOd ne8oewcxJSxII5gwMcTofxcqL7QxXX8BCnzOO+mNxlcfFL8kpBqrkKOspO+IoAZ/ Aj5W3Se6/Lnniy86zDvlocncAK7LqoyzGXTmDOMwKHmi8NqSzLQxwB4zrhyCVM84 Rm/WkXEoDWa2rBzgqcZrTP7/XvZcJY6AFyJA2humB2BY1gKWgNS/wDpgHx6GQgra 57Qy9661H0zX7kxhZBHDAC0gbiX+Mfky5WOmFAtvPwU2Ocms1v6oDsRNW2KHQOTR B6JyujZqw0ZfLdYjKGbR =bVYJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1504003.OEQe7VZV3f--