Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 20051019-9 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. The upload would fix these bugs: 536013. This bug was marked fixed in a previous version, but it turns out the fix was incomplete: a change to KEY_MAX in kernel 2.6.27 changed the definition of an ioctl command used in the joystick tools, which meant that versions of the tools compiled with kernel headers older than 2.6.27 failed to run on kernels from 2.6.27 onwards and vice-versa. I submitted a patch to the kernel, which was included in 2.6.31 and 2.6.30.8; this version of the joystick package handles kernels prior to those two, regardless of the versions of the kernel headers used to build it. The new version of the package also handles a change forthcoming in kernel 2.6.32: some of the joystick ioctl commands return information in their return value, which is interpreted incorrectly by older versions of the joystick package, resulting in strange error messages such as "error: Success". 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_20051019-9.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Stephen Kitt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
