Bug#497523: NEWS?
David actually wrote a NEWS entry about this yesterday:
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-xorg/driver/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics.git;a=commitdiff;h=598ae3fe8592f80e97f58a1c54822754dcd5378e
If anybody knows how to enable tapping at runtime with hal or xinput, we
can add it as well.
Brice
Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Joey Hess (joeyh@debian.org):
>
>> If upstream is really going to disable tapping by default, and Debian is
>> not going to see fit to override them, then at the very least
>> this needs to be well documented in the NEWS file.
>>
>> It's very disconcerting to have tapping just stop working after
>> an upgrade, as happened to me today (to 1.1.0-1).
>>
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>
> Seconded.
>
> I'd appreciate any hint that would help me reinstating tapping. These
> things are among the things that have always been working magically
> for me, so I have no clue *at all* about where to look to reinstate
> tapping.
>
> So, in case there is a NEWS file, I think it should explain how to
> restore a working tapping....though I would very much prefer that
> things are kept as is, to respect the principle of least surprise.
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