Bug#404932: coming soon
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:45:14PM +0200, Leonard Norrg?Ɠrd wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 19:39:33 +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> >On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:23:35AM +0200, Leonard Norrgard wrote:
> >> I've got a basic package done, coming soon.
> >
> >Humm, did you already see my work?
> >http://oioio.altervista.org and look for the git repo.
> >
> >Anyway, I've been working with upstream for the last month to improve
> >build-ability and the driver itself[1] and he will soon release version
> >0.8.2 which I'd like to push into debian repos.
>
> That's very good news! I simply misread #404932 as a wish for it to be
> packaged (probably from the severity: wishlist).
hehe, that's the reportbug default I suppose :)
> I'd be happy to help test your package as well and of course prefer to
> use that rather than doing a separate ad-hoc package for KVM only.
I don't have much time to check now, but probably just removing the
0.8.2 debian/changelog entry and maybe the CFLAGS usage when issuing
`make` should build 0.8.1 too.
> Your git repo seems to be unavailable. So far my work is simply
oh. Sorry, I need to check. If you wish I can send a tarball containing
the .git dir too.
> upstream 0.8.1, plus Anthony Liguori's patch (below) to support
> scrollwheels and a middle button. You may have incorporated this
> patch already.
never seen that patch actually. Will forward it upstream, it also fixes
bugs (the ev->code == REL_{X,Y} stuff)
> This driver has a big usecase as a mouse driver in virtualized
> GNU/Linux guests that are run with QEMU or KVM (I'm co-maintaining KVM
Yup, very nice :)
I'll try to prepare something for you tomorrow[1], time to sleep now.
Thanks
[1]: a 0.8.1 source package and a wider description of ongoing work.
--
mattia
:wq!
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