[ubuntu-x] Updated plans for Lucid?

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Thomas Jaeger wrote:

> Timo Aaltonen wrote:
>>
>> wacom: still no news from the Debian maintainer, meaning that we need to
>> fork the package for now.
>>
>
> I would actually suggest a fresh start instead.  The wacom-tools package
> has always been sort of a mess and the new driver's build system is
> actually much closer to the evdev driver than the old wacom driver.
>
> I've got a working package in one of my PPAs (NB: the package contains
> the complete git repository):
>
> https://launchpad.net/~thjaeger/+archive/tabletpc/+packages?field.name_filter=&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=lucid

Ron has finally released the new wacom:

http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/xf86-input-wacom_0.10.3+20100109-1.html

so no need for unofficial snapshots anymore :)

> Note that this requires an xserver patch to work with serial wacom devices:
>
> http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-January/004596.html

That still needs to be resolved, yes.


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