My tablet pc could have worked out of the box if *only* wacom-tools had
been installed. If I go to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see that my tablet has
been configured, and I see an error that there is no /dev/input/wacom, I
will never suspect the point is to install wacom-tools. But: if the fix
is just to install wacom-tools when xserver-xorg-input-wacom is
installed i.e. to add this obvious missing dependency, why isn't the fix
still released?

Ubuntu is the only distribution that correctly and automatically sets up
all my hardware except for this simple fix. It might not fix every
possible wacom tablet but at least all pennabled convertible tabled pc,
so that I can advice ubuntu to people asking me if "my tablet pc works
on linux" around at university or at conferences etc.

So, since /dev/wacom is also created by wacom-tools now, it just
suffices to add the missing dependency, and this bug can be closed :)

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/etc/X11/xorg.conf should point to /dev/input/wacom instead of /dev/wacom and 
xserver-xorg-input-wacom should depend on wacom-tools (AKA Wacom support almost 
there... add some udev magic?)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/40473

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