Re: RFS: wacom-source

[Sune Vuorela <nospam@vuorela.dk>]

On 2010-07-13, Taylor LeMasurier-Wren <ripps818@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear mentors,
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> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "wacom-source".
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>   Package name    : wacom-source
>   Version         : 0.8.8-1
>   Upstream Author : Ping Cheng <pingc@wacom.com>
>   URL             : http://linuxwacom.sf.net
>   License         : GPL-2
>   Section         : misc
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> It builds these binary packages:
> wacom-dkms - Wacom kernel driver in DKMS format
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> The package appears to be lintian clean.
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> The upload would fix these bugs: 588946
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> My motivation for maintaining this package is:
> The Linux Kernel doesn't support the latest Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch models.
> This package builds a new wacom module using the 0.8.8 linuxwawacom source.
> Since it uses DKMS, it will automatically rebuild the module with every
> kernel upgrade.

Why don't you instead work with the debian kernel people to get the
linux kernel updated in debian, rather than work around it like this?

/Sune
 - bamboo owner currently compiling this by hand