[PATCH] usbutils: remove

[Bjørn Mork]

Paul Spooren <mail at aparcar.org> writes:
> On Mi, Dez 30, 2020 at 10:03, Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> wrote:
>> Rosen Penev <rosenp at gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>>  I have git send-email preset to send stuff to this email address. I
>>>  usually don't CC anyone.
>> I don't understand what "maintainer" means in an OpenWrt context...
>
> My understanding is that a maintainer is a reasonable active and
> reliable person which either updates specific packages to newer 
> versions or reviews other person version bumps (for those packages),

I believe that is an impossible task unless you are copied on patches.

>> Anyway, do you plan to do something about usbreset as well, or will 
>> that
>> be left as a redundant package?
>
> Is usbutils redundant to usbreset? If so, let's remove the latter and
> move the former.

I pushed the OpenWrt usbreset implementation into (upstream) usbutils a
long time ago, because it was generally useful regardless of distro.  So
usbutils newer than v008 has the OpenWrt version of usbreset.


Bjørn