On 2010-07-13, Taylor LeMasurier-Wren <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "wacom-source".
>
>   Package name    : wacom-source
>   Version         : 0.8.8-1
>   Upstream Author : Ping Cheng <[email protected]>
>   URL             : http://linuxwacom.sf.net
>   License         : GPL-2
>   Section         : misc
>
> It builds these binary packages:
> wacom-dkms - Wacom kernel driver in DKMS format
>
> The package appears to be lintian clean.
>
> The upload would fix these bugs: 588946
>
> My motivation for maintaining this package is:
> The Linux Kernel doesn't support the latest Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch models.
> This package builds a new wacom module using the 0.8.8 linuxwawacom source.
> Since it uses DKMS, it will automatically rebuild the module with every
> kernel upgrade.

Why don't you instead work with the debian kernel people to get the
linux kernel updated in debian, rather than work around it like this?

/Sune
 - bamboo owner currently compiling this by hand


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