Hello, On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 17:22, Stephen Kitt<li...@sk2.org> wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 20051019-6 > of my package “joystick”. > > It builds these binary packages: > evtest - utility to monitor input device events > inputattach - utility to connect serial-attached peripherals to the input > subsystem > joystick - set of testing and calibration tools for joysticks > > The package appears to be lintian clean (I checked using version 2.2.13), > apart from two “pendantic”-level warnings concerning the upstream homepage > and upstream changelog, neither of which exists for this package. > > I’ve split the package into three, because inputattach and evtest are both > useful for devices other than joysticks, and serve very different purposes: > intputattach allows “legacy” devices to be used with the input subsystem (and > hence newer releases of X.org), and evtest displays input events and is thus > useful for debugging any kind of input device (keyboards and mice obviously, > but also some scanners and webcams, joysticks, remote controls...). > > The upload would fix these bugs: 144766, 301009, 529865, 536013. It would > also fix Ubuntu bugs 338746 and 131422, including providing additional > force-feedback tools which weren’t built in previous releases of the > packages, along with the corresponding manpages. The copyright file has also > been reworked. > > The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/j/joystick > - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main > contrib non-free > - dget > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/j/joystick/joystick_20051019-6.dsc > > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. > comments:
1. evtest and inputattach should conflicts with joystick (< 20051019-6), otherwise user will meet following error: $ sudo dpkg -i evtest_20051019-6_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package evtest. (Reading database ... 250520 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking evtest (from evtest_20051019-6_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing evtest_20051019-6_i386.deb (--install): trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/evtest', which is also in package joystick Errors were encountered while processing: evtest_20051019-6_i386.deb thanks. -- Best Regards LI Daobing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
