Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86

2003-11-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:07:41AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:58:44PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: That doesn't mean it won't happen, but it should be rare enough that an ad-hoc approach will work. Right, but I'm just saying that you'd then have to have

Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86

2003-11-13 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:32:14AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 06:58:15PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: I think it would be really dumb for a driver author to re-use an existing name for a different purpose. Well, Synaptics could branch out and start making graphics

Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86

2003-11-11 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:53:42PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:12:19PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: * Package name: xfree86-driver-synaptics Please be sure to mention in the package description that this is a driver module *for* the XFree86 X server,

Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86

2003-11-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 03:59:48PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:56:04PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: I thought about the latter as well. It's not too long-winded if we expect having input and video modules with identical names. I can't particularly see this at

Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86

2003-11-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:16:17PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: I'd stick for the short version (I agree with Daniel though). But, isn't this the first external module being packaged? If so we should take a decision about their naming scheme. I think we just did. :) -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86

2003-11-11 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 06:58:15PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 03:59:48PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:56:04PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: I thought about the latter as well. It's not too long-winded if we expect having input and

Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86

2003-11-10 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 03:59:48PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:56:04PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:03:14AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: [...] I was thinking about xfree86-driver-synaptics, or xfree86-driver-input-synaptics, but the

Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86

2003-11-10 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:12:19PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: * Package name: xfree86-driver-synaptics Please be sure to mention in the package description that this is a driver module *for* the XFree86 X server, not a driver module *from* the XFree86 Project, Inc. Description

Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86

2003-11-09 Thread Mattia Dongili
retitle 219163 ITP: xfree86-driver-synaptics -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86 stop On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 02:52:09PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:04:21PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:23:09PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: [...]

Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86

2003-11-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:03:14AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 02:52:09PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:04:21PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:23:09PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: Er, actually, last I heard,

Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86

2003-11-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:56:04PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:03:14AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: There is one unreachable person; IIRC, he was a reasonably major contributor. Double bummer. Aye; sort of condemns it to external DDKdom. I was thinking about

Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86

2003-11-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:04:21PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:23:09PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: Er, actually, last I heard, the author was still looking into relicensing it in a manner consistent with XFree86's requirements. (They don't accept GPLed code.)

monstrous arse [Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86]

2003-11-08 Thread Tom
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 02:52:09PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: G. Branden Robinson| It just seems to me that you are Debian GNU/Linux | willfully entering an arse-kicking [EMAIL PROTECTED] | contest with a monstrous entity

Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86

2003-11-08 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 02:52:09PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:04:21PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:23:09PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: Er, actually, last I heard, the author was still looking into relicensing it in a manner