Bug#861455: Version 1.1.0-1 uploaded to mentors
Updated to the upstream 1.1.0 release. tslib itself is gaining popularity since the beginning of this year, see https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=libts0+libts-bin_installed=on_legend=on_ticks=on_date=2017-01-01_date=now_date=_fmt=%25Y-%25m=1 and as SDL2 graphical calibration and a D-Bus daemon are at least possible in the future for tslib, it would only become more useful. xf86-input-tslib makes tslib "just work" on X11. -- Martin Kepplinger https://martinkepplinger.com
Bug#861455: promotion update
By now, this updated version 1.0.0 has at least __some__ popularity in Arch Linux' AUR repository, see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-input-tslib/ and buildroot uses it in their builds. To clarify, tslib itself even somewhat promotes using standard evdev touchscreen kernel drivers. It's main purpose is the filter stack on top of it. From X.org's perspective, tslib offers a special API that won't be part of xf86-input-evdev or xf86-input-libinput or even libinput itself. It's totally touchscreen specific. But if people need tslib's filters, xf86-input-tslib makes tslib _trivially_ easy to use for X.org systems. While there are other ways to use it, they require more configuration which isn't such a problem in embedded devices. Since both projects (tslib and xf86-input-tslib) are actively maintained, at least for me, it'd make sense to have them in Debian.
Bug#861455: package updated to 1.0.0
Version 1.0.0 is released upstream, being a major update, almost a rewrite, it uses X.org's touch API and supports multitouch. The package is updated on mentors accordingly. In case you want to make that available to Debian and sponsor it, feel free to contact me. cheers, martin
Bug#861455: ITP: xf86-input-tslib -- X.org input driver for tslib
Am 2017-04-29 um 16:29 schrieb Julien Cristau: > On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 12:47:29 +0200, Martin Kepplinger wrote: > >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Martin Kepplinger <mart...@posteo.de> >> >> * Package name: xf86-input-tslib >> Version : 0.0.7 >> Upstream Author : Martin Kepplinger <mart...@posteo.de> >> * URL : https://github.com/merge/xf86-input-tslib >> * License : MIT >> Programming Lang: C >> Description : X.org input driver for tslib >> >> xf86-input-tslib had been in Debian before, see >> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xf86-input-tslib and I'm rewriting the >> packaging completely due to it's age. I only intend to build upon the >> old changelog file. >> >> Former upstream site: >> http://public.pengutronix.de/software/xf86-input-tslib/ >> >> Packaging is done here now: >> https://github.com/merge/xf86-input-tslib-debian >> >> - why is this package useful/relevant? >> >> tslib is still quite widely used in embedded at least. It saw much >> improvements recently and this package would make tslib available to >> X servers. xf86-input-tslib 0.0.7 was recently released and makes it >> usable on recent systems. There are plans for multitouch too. >> >> - how do you plan to maintain it? >> >> I reached out to the people from the old packaging repo at >> http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/xf86-input-tslib.git;a=summary >> but haven't heard anything. It shouldn't be an issue though, to just >> maintain this little packaging code on github. >> > I don't think we should revive this package in Debian. There has been > much effort upstream in the last years to reduce the amount of > device-specific code in userspace drivers, with things stabilizing > around the evdev and now libinput drivers. Why does libinput not > satisfy your needs, and why can't it be made to? tslib's purpose (among others) is to have variety of filters to apply to touch input samples, and screen-calibration (linear transformation). libinput, as far as I know, doesn't have a filter-stack or mechanism to chain mathematical filters. thanks, martin
Bug#861455: it's on mentors
fyi: https://mentors.debian.net/package/xf86-input-tslib -- Martin Kepplinger http://martinkepplinger.com sent from mobile
Bug#861455: ITP: xf86-input-tslib -- X.org input driver for tslib
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Martin Kepplinger <mart...@posteo.de> * Package name: xf86-input-tslib Version : 0.0.7 Upstream Author : Martin Kepplinger <mart...@posteo.de> * URL : https://github.com/merge/xf86-input-tslib * License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : X.org input driver for tslib xf86-input-tslib had been in Debian before, see https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xf86-input-tslib and I'm rewriting the packaging completely due to it's age. I only intend to build upon the old changelog file. Former upstream site: http://public.pengutronix.de/software/xf86-input-tslib/ Packaging is done here now: https://github.com/merge/xf86-input-tslib-debian - why is this package useful/relevant? tslib is still quite widely used in embedded at least. It saw much improvements recently and this package would make tslib available to X servers. xf86-input-tslib 0.0.7 was recently released and makes it usable on recent systems. There are plans for multitouch too. - how do you plan to maintain it? I reached out to the people from the old packaging repo at http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/xf86-input-tslib.git;a=summary but haven't heard anything. It shouldn't be an issue though, to just maintain this little packaging code on github.
Bug#845181: (no subject)
so there it is: https://mentors.debian.net/package/tslib
Bug#845181: (kein Betreff)
just so you know, I'm working on packaging tslib here: https://github.com/merge/tslib-debian and will upload the first version I'm happy with to mentors soon.
Bug#845181: O: tslib
Package: wnpp Severity: normal tslib - touchscreen access library - https://github.com/kergoth/tslib tslib 1.2 just was released just now and the project is more active than it was in previous years. The reason I report this as orphaned is that tslib was packaged for wheezy, see https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/tslib and is gone thereafter. It's at least a good example to look at and see what binary packages were provided of the tslib source package.
