Bug#256863: This bug can probably be closed

[Bruce Stephens <bruce.stephens@isode.com>]

Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:

[...]

> I wonder if this would be explained by the following changelog entry:
>
> xfree86 (4.2.1-12) unstable; urgency=high
> [...]
>   * patch #097: new; add Bartosz Zapalowski's patch for supporting wheel mice
>     with large numbers of buttons; the ZAxisMapping option "pushes up" the
>     other buttons so that the mouse behaves sanely.  This addresses problems
>     with how the X server parses wheel data from at least some devices that
>     use the ExplorerPS/2 protocol. (Closes: #166550)
> [...]
>  -- Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>  Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:34:48 -0500

Could be that.  The changelog doesn't describe the behaviour I saw,
but it certainly looks like the right area of code.

> How recently did you notice this change in scroll wheel behavior?
> What version of the xfree86 packages were you running previously?

Very recently (in the last couple of weeks).  So September 2003
doesn't seem possible.  I've been running unstable for about a year,
(updating most days) so I've presumably been running 4.2.1-12 and
later for a long time.