<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Dec 22, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Blaine Booher wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hey everyone,<br> I am getting the same error when trying to use libhid's python module as described here: <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476525">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476525</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sorry, this was the first time I heard about the need for a patch. Usually, bugs like this in the Debian BTS are tagged "upstream", and they CC the maintainer. I guess it slipped through the cracks this time.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"> A comment was made that the bug was fixed, and would be available at Debian's download "soon". That message was posted December 13 (last week) but the trunk still shows the last update as being in October. I have downloaded the latest SVN release but am still getting the assert error.<br> <br> Any suggestions? Is there another location to pull the latest source from?<br></blockquote></div><br><div>If they say that the bug will be fixed in Debian's archive, then you should be able to find the patch in their archive as well. I don't know how that works for NMUs, though.</div><div><br></div><div>Debian's libhid package is based on an SVN snapshot from 2006. You may find other differences between that and the current trunk.</div></body></html>