To whoever might read this far into this bug report, Since somebody has asked again about doing this in #d-d today, despite all the reasons already recorded here for not doing it, here's some more context for the next person who may be tempted down this path ...
More than a decade ago, we did have a separate package in the distro for the wacom kernel modules. More than half a decade ago, it was removed from the distro again since it had become fairly convincingly unnecessary [1], and in fact had become actively harmful, since people who didn't need it at all were confused into thinking they did, even when it was the thing that was actually most out of date. When the X driver and tools were later split from the rest of the upstream source we even stopped shipping the kernel code as a build it yourself thing in the source. Mostly because upstream had become very active with getting new changes directly into the mainline kernel and new devices were generally only ever a matter of weeks away from being supported there after the code for them existed. I'm not aware of that close collaboration having broken down, so there really isn't any reason at all to re-add a package to the distro that nobody will care about just a couple of weeks after they add it. If you you have shiny new hardware that isn't supported yet, go and work through the normal channels to get it mainlined. That's the best and fastest way to get what you Really Want here. I'd close this bug, but someone will just open another one, so it's probably best to keep this recorded on the off chance they might see it and be enlightened. You should consider it flagged "Don't fix" :) hth, Ron [1] http://bugs.debian.org/434935 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
