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Switch gtk d-i to libinput (instead of evdev)?



(Subject was: "Re: Missing libgudev-1.0-0 udeb package?")

On 11/12/2020 04:22, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:21 PM Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton@debian.org> wrote:
>>>> It seems that there is no libgudev-1.0-0 udeb at all, while it becomes
>>>> a dependency of xserver-xorg-input-libinput-udeb like below.
>>>>      xserver-xorg-input-libinput-udeb
>>>>          libinput10-udeb
>>>>              libwacom2-udeb
>>>>                  libgudev-1.0-0
>>>>
>>>> Should we build libgudev-1.0-0 udeb to resolve this dependency problem?
>>>>
>>> I guess one alternative would be to build libinput-udeb without libwacom
>>> support?
>> yeah, libwacom udeb was added just because libinput gained a dependency
>> on it.. I'll drop it from the next upload
> 
> Appreciate the quick response!  I just rebuilt the installer with
> libinput driver instead of evdev, and the cursor works now! \o/

Switching to libinput also fixes the same touchpad issue on two of my
devices (one arm64, one amd64). Thanks!

Cyril: Shawn has filed a MR [1] on salsa to change arm64 cdrom gtk build
from/to using xserver-xorg-input-{evdev->libinput}-udeb, is it OK do to
that for all architectures/builds [2]?

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/merge_requests/19

[2] $ git grep evdev
    cdrom/grub/gtk/arm64.cfg:xserver-xorg-input-evdev-udeb
    cdrom/isolinux/gtk/amd64.cfg:xserver-xorg-input-evdev-udeb
    cdrom/isolinux/gtk/i386.cfg:xserver-xorg-input-evdev-udeb
    hd-media/gtk/amd64.cfg:xserver-xorg-input-evdev-udeb
    hd-media/gtk/i386.cfg:xserver-xorg-input-evdev-udeb
    netboot/gtk/amd64.cfg:xserver-xorg-input-evdev-udeb
    netboot/gtk/arm64.cfg:xserver-xorg-input-evdev-udeb
    netboot/gtk/armel.cfg:xserver-xorg-input-evdev-udeb
    netboot/gtk/armhf.cfg:xserver-xorg-input-evdev-udeb
    netboot/gtk/i386.cfg:xserver-xorg-input-evdev-udeb
    netboot/gtk/powerpc.cfg:xserver-xorg-input-evdev-udeb
    netboot/gtk/ppc64.cfg:xserver-xorg-input-evdev-udeb


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