[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#528742: any comments?

[Julien Cristau]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 14:19:44 +0200, Guido Günther wrote:

> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 01:55:17PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Guido Günther wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > any chance this gets added?
> > >  -- Guido
> > 
> > It will be added, one way or another.
> > 
> > Currently the 10-x11-input.fdi file is not enabled and only installed to
> > /usr/share/doc/hal/examples, because the evdev driver ships it's own fdi file. I
> > was talking to Julien some time ago, if either the xorg/evdev package should add
> > this information or if we should start using the fdi file from hal.
> Thanks for the update (I wasn't sure if we do want to ship this with hal
> or xorg). Enabling upstream's 10-x11-input.fdi makes sense IMHO (which
> would also fix this wishlist bug). Let me know if I can do anything to
> help with this.

Installing the fdi with the hal package means breakage with old X, so I
don't think it's a good idea.
Why does this device need to be handled specially, instead of falling
under the generic info.capabilities test?

Cheers,
Julien