Replacing libusb1 with libusbx

[Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I plan to replace libusb1 with libusbx, libusx is a fork of and
a drop in replacement for libusb1.

The libusbx fork was started by various libusb-1.0 developers
(almost all of them *), because the official maintainer of libusb-1.0
refused to do any stable / tarbal releases for over 18 months and in
general was very slow with merging new developments and fixes.

Don't be fooled by the recently done libusb-1.0.9 release, that
was done by the libusb-1.0 maintainer *after* the libusbx fork
was announced and had already done 2 releases. The fact that
this release only happened after the fork went public, despite
various people including me asking for a release for ages (**)
shows that forking was necessary.

Anyways, I just included this tidbit to explain why I'm replacing
libusb1 with libusbx for Fedora-18 and later. Lets not look
backwards, but forwards towards what looks to be a bright future
with libusbx :)

A rename review request can be found here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823886

Reviews appreciated!

Regards,

Hans

*)  Full disclosure: I'm one of the libusb developers behind the fork
**) I was originally promised a 1.0.9 release in time for inclusion
into Fedora 16 gold!
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