libusb-dev usb.h not compatible with other distros

[Xiaofan Chen]

Binary package hint: libusb-dev

Reference:
http://libusb.6.n5.nabble.com/OpenUSB-compilation-fails-on-Debian-because-of-fix-for-bug-473814-td4366614.html

Basically this is a Debian problem since it has the following patches in Debian even though it is not accepted by upstream.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=473814

This patch is not adopted by non-Debian distros and thus causes problems with programs like OpenUSB.

[Xiaofan Chen (xiaofanc)]

On the other hand, the Debian patch seems to be correct but libusb-0.1 is not maintained by upstream. Instead, the upstream maintains libusb-1.0 and libusb-compat-0.1 which many other distros ship.

So this may not a bug for Debian/Ubuntu but it conflicts with other distros shipping with original libusb-0.1 usb.h or libusb-compat-0.1.

Ludovic Rousseau has sent in patches to libusb mailing list. Hopefully the libusb admins can accept this patch. In that case, this bug report can be closed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.