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

[Julien Cristau]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 18:37:55 +0200, Guido Günther wrote:

> Why would the rule shipped by upstream break older X? Older X doesn't
> use hal for autodetection.
> 
See the various bugs that showed up when hal started shipping that fdi
last year, and why that was reverted. (some, if not most of them, are
actually client bugs that were just never exposed before, but those
clients include gnome stuff, so people got upset when their keyboards
stopped working)

> > 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?

Yes, I mean the general check provided with the evdev package (or a
check for input.tablet if that's more appropriate).  I don't think
there's a point in adding specific rules for particular device names
here.

Cheers,
Julien