Re: Bug#620943: ITP: evtest -- utility to monitor input device events

[Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>]

On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 13:14:01 +0200, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr  5, 2011 at 09:41:13 +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> 
> > * Package name    : evtest
> >   Version         : 1.27
> >   Upstream Author : Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@redhat.com>
> > * URL             : http://cgit.freedesktop.org/evtest/
> > * License         : GPLv2
> >   Programming Lang: C
> >   Description     : utility to monitor input device events
> > 
> >  evtest monitors an input device, displaying all the events it generates.
> 
> a Linux input device maybe...

Indeed, thanks for pointing that out; I'll change the description and the
Architecture: field.

> >  It can be used to determine mice button bindings, keymaps for exotic
> >  keyboards... It is commonly used to debug issues with input devices
> >  in X.Org.
> > 
> Thanks for picking this up!

You're welcome! Once I found out about Peter's repository it seemed like the
obvious thing to do.

Regards,

Stephen