[gpm]Re: Debian gpm patches.

[Nico Schottelius]

Zephian, could you please update the debian gpm bug list ?
I would like to announce gpm-1.20.0 in about 4 weeks.
There are still reports about very old bugs in gpm, which are really not
present.

Nico

"Zephaniah E. Hull" wrote:

> Attached is the whole collection of patches against .5.
>
> I should note that the patches are designed to be applied in lexical
> order, and no patch requires a later patch to compile and function.
>
> 003_wheel_000 has a problem in that it may break programs which receive
> events via libgpm, I am not sure what the best way to handle that is.
>
> The new ps2 init function is a good bit more complex, and as I rewrote
> it tonight I came to the conclusion that what I would /like/ to see is a
> quick run down of init sequences used by the various protocols, the
> protocol IDs, and then adding an autoprobe ps2 protocol which figures
> out which one is actually needed.
>
> Most of that work is commented out at the bottom of the new ps2 init
> function, just need a little more work to get it actually done.
>
> I have not been able to test this on all the various mice yet, however I
> DO know that many mice will break with the new init, and thus the final
> patch adds two protocols, fups2 and fuimps2, the descriptions on each
> are a little more polite then the expanded names.
>
> I'll upload .debs based on this for tomorrow's dinstall run, after which
> it will get a bit more of a beating testing wise.
>
> Zephaniah E. Hull.
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Nico Schottelius

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