Bug#818905: Steam Controller is not correctly detected

[Michael Gilbert]

On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 12:22 PM, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Are you saying this because you don't want these udev rules to diverge
> from upstream's, or because your interpretation of the steam package's
> license is that you aren't allowed to patch them?

Both were a concern at the time, but it looks like the license of the
udev rules file has been changed recently to MIT.

> If the former, the udev package in SteamOS brewmaster has a patch that
> (among other things) does the equivalent of what I suggested, so they are
> effectively already doing that in SteamOS (although not in the steam.deb
> that is the "upstream" for Debian's steam package).

I would have expected Valve to update their upstream package by now.
Since they haven't in a very long time, I am fine with adding a patch
to the Debian package.

Best wishes,
Mike