Bug#916298: steam: should depend on steam-devices

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Wed Dec 12 20:18:15 GMT 2018


Package: steam
Version: 1.0.0.56-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

The Steam client relies on the udev rules in the steam-devices package
to provide access to USB and Bluetooth gamepads, controllers and VR
devices, and to give it the ability to emulate input devices via uinput
when remapping gamepad inputs to control keyboard- and mouse-based
games. The udev rules were originally just for the Steam Controller,
but increasingly many features of the client need input device remapping.

Steam developers at Valve consider it to be a bug that the Debian/Ubuntu
steam package can be installed without also installing the udev rules in
the steam-devices package: I'm told it's generating a noticeable support
burden for them.

Please upgrade the Suggests to a hard dependency, or at least a
Recommends.

Thanks,
    smcv


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