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

[Guido Günther]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 03:03:42PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
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> Installing the fdi with the hal package means breakage with old X, so I
> don't think it's a good idea.
At least the fdi I submitted wouldn't break anything since it only
matches on QEMU's emulated usb tablet. 
Why would the rule shipped by upstream break older X? Older X doesn't
use hal for autodetection.

> Why does this device need to be handled specially, instead of falling
> under the generic info.capabilities test?
You mean the general check provided with the evdev package? It's an
emulated USB tablet so I'm not sure it's supposed to set input.keys. Is
it?
Cheers,
 -- Guido