Mini-main inclusion report:
Proposal: remove inputattach (main) package from the archive and replace
by joystick (universe) package.
Rational: The package replaces another package we currently support and
promises higher quality and/or better features, so that we can drop the
old package from the supported set.
There is no canonical upstream for this code. Inputattach(main) was
created by splitting it out of the joysticks src package from debian
(diff is 0) to provide support of COM mice.
After that debian maintainer continued to support inputattach by adding
bugfixes, together in that sourcepackage he also maintains joysticks
code (again no upstream) by adding bugfixes and new joystick types.
There are no know past or present security issues with this package.
There is reasonable demand for binaries build out of the joysticks
package as can be seen from ubuntu bugs and debian changelog. It
provides COM mice joystick support at it's current best possible way
on Linux.
Dependencies already present in main. Input on the archive is
minimalistic cause total size of debs is ~50kB on one arch.
In short - brings better COM mice support, removes burden from MOTU of
merging each revision of joystick's package.
Please consider replacing inputattach with joysticks.
** Summary changed:
- Sync joystick 20051019-9 (universe) from Debian testing (main)
+ Replace inputattach (main, unmaintained) with joystick (universe, maintained)
** Description changed:
+ [Mir team see comment #4]
+
+ -
+
Please sync joystick 20051019-9 (universe) from Debian testing (main)
Explanation of the Ubuntu delta and why it can be dropped:
Inputattach is now recomemended by the package. LP bugs fixed in debian.
Changelog entries since current lucid version 20051019-5ubuntu1:
joystick (20051019-9) unstable; urgency=low
- * Handle the various buffer sizes expected in kernels 2.6.27 to 2.6.30.8
- (2.6.28 changed the value of KEY_MAX, which changed the definition of
- a joystick-related ioctl; 2.6.31 fixed the problem by handling any
- buffer size - see ec8b4b7085605e801a7740a2c3c33256aebe249c in the
- kernel git repository, which was also shipped in 2.6.30.8). Correctly
- closes: #536013. Thanks to Krzysztof A. Sobiecki for help determining
- the actual cause of the behaviour seen in jstest!
- * Avoid treating positive return values from ioctl() as errors; kernels
- starting with 2.6.32 return buffer sizes in some cases (see
- 999b874f4aa39b7abf45662ff0900f943ddb2d02 in the kernel git
- repository).
- * Standards-Version 3.8.3, no change required.
- * initscript stops in level 1 as well as 0 and 6. Note that the
- initscript will be going away soon, see #540680.
+ * Handle the various buffer sizes expected in kernels 2.6.27 to 2.6.30.8
+ (2.6.28 changed the value of KEY_MAX, which changed the definition of
+ a joystick-related ioctl; 2.6.31 fixed the problem by handling any
+ buffer size - see ec8b4b7085605e801a7740a2c3c33256aebe249c in the
+ kernel git repository, which was also shipped in 2.6.30.8). Correctly
+ closes: #536013. Thanks to Krzysztof A. Sobiecki for help determining
+ the actual cause of the behaviour seen in jstest!
+ * Avoid treating positive return values from ioctl() as errors; kernels
+ starting with 2.6.32 return buffer sizes in some cases (see
+ 999b874f4aa39b7abf45662ff0900f943ddb2d02 in the kernel git
+ repository).
+ * Standards-Version 3.8.3, no change required.
+ * initscript stops in level 1 as well as 0 and 6. Note that the
+ initscript will be going away soon, see #540680.
- -- Stephen Kitt st...@sk2.org Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:12:52 +0200
+ -- Stephen Kitt st...@sk2.org Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:12:52 +0200
joystick (20051019-8) unstable; urgency=low
- * Avoid failing with an exit code of 1 in the initscript; thanks Sean
- Finney! Closes: #537804
+ * Avoid failing with an exit code of 1 in the initscript; thanks Sean
+ Finney! Closes: #537804
- -- Stephen Kitt st...@sk2.org Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:12:59 +0200
+ -- Stephen Kitt st...@sk2.org Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:12:59 +0200
joystick (20051019-7) unstable; urgency=low
- * Make evtest and inputattach conflict with previous versions of
- joystick, as suggested by LI Daobing.
+ * Make evtest and inputattach conflict with previous versions of
+ joystick, as suggested by LI Daobing.
- -- Stephen Kitt st...@sk2.org Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:17:54 +0200
+ -- Stephen Kitt st...@sk2.org Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:17:54 +0200
joystick (20051019-6) unstable; urgency=low
- * Add Sahara Touch-iT213 support; thanks Claudio Nieder! LP: #338746
- * Package evtest and inputattach separately. Closes: #301009
- * Ship force-feedback tools. LP: #131422
- * Add initscript to save and restore calibration data. Closes: #144766
- * Switch from cdbs to dh 7.
- * Rewrite debian/copyright.
- * Rewrite
