release the latest usb-modeswitch in Trusty

[Mateusz Stachowski]

The upstream released new versions of usb-modeswitch and usb-modeswitch-data on January 28th and 29th 2014.

http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/

This version supports many more usb modems than the one currently available in Trusty besides those packages haven't been updated for a very, very long time in Ubuntu.

The packages are already available in Debian Testing and Unstable.

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=usb-modeswitch

Besides that the maintainer of the USB_ModeSwitch Debian package has set up a PPA providing this most recent release.

https://launchpad.net/~odyx/+archive/usb-modeswitch

NOTE: there is also a similar bug report from users that want the latest usb-modeswitch on Trusty.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-modeswitch/+bug/1270499

[Mateusz Stachowski (stachowski-mateusz)]

Here is the list of new devices from Debian Testing package of usb-modeswitch-data:

usb-modeswitch-data (20140129-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
    + New devices
     [0685:2000] ZE-3G 7.2Mbs HSPA modem
     [12d1:1f1b] Vodafone / Huawei Kxxxx
     [12d1:1f1c] Vodafone / Huawei Kxxxx
     [12d1:1f1d] Vodafone / Huawei Kxxxx
     [12d1:1f1e] Vodafone / Huawei Kxxxx
     [19d2:1030] Vodafone K5008-z (MF823)

  * Bump Recommends/Breaks against usb-modeswitch to 2.1.0
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.5 without changes needed

 -- Didier Raboud <email address hidden> Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:24:06 +0100

usb-modeswitch-data (20131113-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    + New devices
     [0408:ea17] Quanta 1KR / USB-lte 7410
     [0408:ea43] Quanta MobileGenie 4G lte
     [057c:62ff] AVM Fritz!Wlan USB Stick N v2
     [05c6:9024] Alcatel-sbell ASB TL131 TD-LTE
     [12d1:1f16] Vodafone K5150
     [12d1:1f17] Vodafone K4201
     [12d1:1f18] Vodafone K4202
     [12d1:1f19] Vodafone K4606
     [19d2:0304] ZTE MF821D (Variant)
     [19d2:1225] ZTE MF668 (Variant), MF70
     [19d2:2004] ZTE MF60
     [1bbb:011f] Haier EVDO Rev. A

 -- Didier Raboud <email address hidden> Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:40:00 +0100

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.