hotplugging wacom tablet in feisty bug triage

[Peter Whittaker]

On Thu, 2007-15-03 at 00:34 +0100, Dries Desmet wrote:
> I'm wondering where you got the information that the wacom-tools package 
> in debian only got made recently. The version 0.7.4.1 of wacom-tools got 
> migrated to debian "testing" on 31-5-2006 already as I've found here: 
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/wacom-tools.html
> Debian "stable" seems to be even further behind in version number. Is 
> this what you found as well or am I looking at the wrong documents?

You're right, I hadn't looked into this deeply enough (thanks for
providing me with a "quest" to help me wake up this morning :->).

> I'm asking because first I would like to know whether a sync with debian 
> actually happens with the "testing" branch. Can it be any branch or is 
> "testing" the rule of thumb to ask for inclusion? It would help me to 
> make a case for exception if I have an estimation on what is too far 
> stretched or what is reasonably acceptable.

My understanding is that Ubuntu imports from sid (unstable) at the
beginning of the release cycle [1]. According to the release schedule,
this would have been in December 2006 for Feisty [2]. Given the Debian
change information [3], I would have thought Feisty would have the most
recent version.

However, [4] refers to the case where changes have been within Ubuntu
that make automatic merging problematic. Thing is, I've looked through
the Ubuntu changelogs [5] and through MoM [6], and not been able to find
any reason why wacom is behind.

The latest people to touch wacom were Matthew Garrett [7] and Scott
James Remnant [8], so perhaps they would be able to shed some light or
assist with the update.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Packages/Merging

[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeistyReleaseSchedule

[3] http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/wacom-tools.html

[4] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Merging

[5] http://tinyurl.com/2td633 (short version of
http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/w/wacom-tools/wacom-tools_0.7.2-0ubuntu7/changelog )

[6] http://merges.ubuntu.com/ and especially
http://merges.ubuntu.com/main.html and http://merges.ubuntu.com/w/

[7] https://launchpad.net/~mjg59 &
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MatthewGarrett 

[8] https://launchpad.net/~keybuk &
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScottJamesRemnant