Bug#861455: promotion update
By now, this updated version 1.0.0 has at least __some__ popularity in
Arch Linux'
AUR repository, see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-input-tslib/
and buildroot
uses it in their builds.
To clarify, tslib itself even somewhat promotes using standard evdev
touchscreen
kernel drivers. It's main purpose is the filter stack on top of it. From
X.org's perspective,
tslib offers a special API that won't be part of xf86-input-evdev or
xf86-input-libinput or
even libinput itself. It's totally touchscreen specific.
But if people need tslib's filters, xf86-input-tslib makes tslib
_trivially_ easy to use for
X.org systems. While there are other ways to use it, they require more
configuration
which isn't such a problem in embedded devices.
Since both projects (tslib and xf86-input-tslib) are actively
maintained, at least for me,
it'd make sense to have them in Debian.
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