On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 09:08:35PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 12:44:01AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 08:40:03AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > Quoting Adam Borowski (kilobyte@mimuw.edu.pl): > > > > The debconf question xserver-xorg/config/inputdevice/mouse/zaxismapping > > > > is needed by xserver-xorg's preinst, yet its template is missing. Without > > > > it, installation fails on new installs unless manually preseeded. > > > > > I grabbed this template back from the 6.9 branch, along with > > > translations. > > > > > However, I'm not involved in X packages maintenance enough for knowing > > > whether re-adding it is the way to go. > > > > > Please, XSF people, tell me if that is what needs to be done. If so, > > > I'll apply my pending change. > > > > David added some code to the preinst which copes with the absence of the > > template in question, but it seems to me that the code isn't useful *at all* > > if we're not going to use the template. Since the purpose of this code is > > to convert the values for this question, and there are no other uses of this > > question in the config or postinst scripts, I think the correct solution is > > to simply drop this block of code from the config script. > > Right, I'm not really sure why Daniel removed the template in the ubuntu > stuff. I'll look in to it and possibly add it back. Removing it will go > well with my ultimate plan to dismember dexconf though, so that'll be my > preference if it's something sensible. It was removed because the code in current X.Org servers should work just fine without ZAxisMapping.
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