Okay, I'll update the patch tomorrow.

0xffff[1] (which I already packaged local) depends on libusb-0.1.
Although it compiles fine with libusb-compat, during executing it throws
an error[2].

I hope this is a good reason :)

[1] https://github.com/pali/0xFFFF
[2]
https://github.com/pali/0xFFFF/blob/08485a0c094cf021e5abedd001741da9d0fd1474/src/usb-device.c#L325

Am 16.07.2017 um 23:20 schrieb Marius Bakke:
> Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de> writes:
> 
>> * gnu/packages/libusb.scm (libusb-0.1): New variable.
>> * gnu/packages/patches/libusb-0.1-disable-tests.patch: New file.
> 
> Thanks! Remember to also add patches to 'gnu/local.mk'.
> 
> The meat of this LGTM, but I do wonder why this is needed. Do you have
> some other software depending on it? If so, which?
> 
> I'm hesitant to add this old and unmaintained version without a good
> reason.
>