Re: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: Changes to 'debian-experimental'
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 00:33:58 +0900, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 04:18:56PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > Hi Mattia, thanks for updating the synaptics package!
> >
> > A few things I had in mind about this:
> > - we might want to reapply e6595886d7ae3a1730cd0d9f86fd0f305c0743c2
> > (Matthew Garrett's patch to detect the device resolution) which has
> > been reverted upstream due to being GPL
>
> aaah I misread this patch title and thought it was the "don't grab on if
> not on current VT" which I kept and which is obviously completely
> different :P. Sure, 1730cd0d9f86fd0f305c0743c2 is worth including.
> Shall we keep it as a separate patch or just apply it directly on the
> debian-* branches? (I'd go for the separate patch)
>
I'd go for separate patch as well.
> > - debian/copyright probably needs an update for the move to fd.o and the
> > (partial?) relicensing
>
> I noticed this as well (actually lintian complained for the lack of
> copyright) and have already amended the debian/copyright to the MIT
> licence instead of GPL (taken from the upstream COPYING file). I haven't
> pushed it to alioth yet.
>
OK. We'll still have to include the GPL reference for the above patch
though.
> My plan is to fix this and upload the synaptics driver to experimental
> tomorrow.
Nice, thanks.
> Also the lenny version may require one more upload with the appletouch
> addon to the fdi file.
>
Agreed. I was waiting for the current version to age a bit before
asking for an unblock, but it may make sense to include the appletouch
addon right now, and only then ask for a transition to lenny.
Cheers,
Julien
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