Guus Sliepen <g...@debian.org> wrote: > First of all, this application is so simple, it can easily be written as a > architecture independent shell script. Furthermore, the package name is very > generic, it would be nice if it worked for other brands of laptops as well. My > Samsung for example has the same interface to change the backlight, except the > sysfs file is called /sys/class/leds/samsung::kbd_backlight instead of > smc::kbd_backlight. And I think the FTP masters will ask you if it wouldn't be > possible to have the functionality merged with an existing Debian package that > has to do with backlight or ACPI.
This is true. And actually someone else did it also as a shell script, with a similar name as well: https://github.com/mkouhei/scripts/blob/master/kbdlight.sh However, the point is that somebody put effort on doing this is a small C application and somebody thought it was also useful. I don't see why it should not be included in Debian, maybe it'll be useful for even more people.
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