Ping, LinuxWacom-discuss, I see on the SourceFourge project page that the bug that I was referring to in this thread has been fixed, and is scheduled to release in the 0.7.7-2 release of the LinuxWacom drivers.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1562718&group_id=69596&atid=525124 This is awesome news, and as a graphics designer hoping to make a go of doing graphics in a fully open source environment, this is a huge, huge development for me. Apologies in advance for being like a kid on the night before Christmas, but I had a question about the process by which the drivers become available in repositories. I understand (and appreciate), that at the outset, the LinuxWacom drivers are written by coders volunteering their time and that new releases come basically when the programmers can get around to it. Fair enough. What is not clear to me, though, is how the drivers make their way from being available on the LinuxWacom page at SourceForge to being a package in a repository available for largely automatic install. Nor is it clear to me who makes the decisions or is doing the work of maintaining the package in the repository. Ages ago, my first attempts at installing the LinuxWacom drivers from the source available on the web page were met with mixed results. Installing and upgrading from the repositories has been a huge help to me. However, I notice that the repositories don't follow a clear pattern for upgrades. They certainly don't become available with each advance on the SourceForge site. The currently available package in the Ubuntu repositories is 0.7.2. The current release on the web site is 0.7.7. So I'm wondering what my options are for getting this much desired bug-fix featured release when it's available. Can I take the code off the SourceForge web site and somehow overwrite it on what I already have so as to not have to do a full (and historically unsuccessful) manual install? Is there anyone I can ask nicely and politely if they will consider making it available in the repositories? Do I simply have to wait and hope? Sorry if my anxiousness offends anyone in any way. I ask these questions because I really don't know how a lot of these things work, and hope to understand so I can ease my eagerness. All the work on this project by all its volunteers is much appreciated. Thank you. -- Dave M G Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Kernel 2.6.17.7 Pentium D Dual Core Processor PHP 5, MySQL 5, Apache 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Linuxwacom-discuss mailing list Linuxwacom-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-discuss
