Package: libwacom-common Version: 0.19-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer,
For some time I tried to figure out why on Debian some functions of my two wacom tablets were not working properly and also they didn't work through libinput. Recently I had the ocasion to try my wacom tablets on an Arch Linux system and I was surprised to see them fully working and also with libinput. With the Xorg input wacom driver, the stylus buttons and the eraser didn't work and also some of the buttons of the tablet weren't properly detected. With libinput I couldn't use the tablet neither with the stylus or touch because it didn't identify correctly the pad. Executing the command libinput-list-devices I got this error. libinput error: libinput bug: Device 'Wacom Bamboo 2FG 6x8 SE Pad' does not meet tablet criteria. Ignoring this device. All these problems went away when I copied Arch's libwacom udev rules, 65-libwacom.rules to /lib/udev/rules.d/ Inspecting the Arch's PKGBUILD I see at the end of it that the udev rules are generated through the command generate-udev-rules, which is created during the build process. https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/libwacom I successfully tried to create new packages with the newest version of libwacom, 0.21, patching debian/rules to include the udev rules, and it worked for me. I don't know if it's the correct way to do it. --- debian/rules 2016-06-19 15:41:52.532499180 +0200 +++ debian/rules.new 2016-06-19 13:40:40.082331560 +0200 @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ override_dh_install: find debian/tmp -name '*.la' -delete + mkdir -p debian/libwacom-common/lib/udev/rules.d/ + build/tools/generate-udev-rules > debian/libwacom-common/lib/udev/rules.d/65-libwacom.rules dh_install --fail-missing override_dh_makeshlibs: Also I think it's missing a libwacom-common.postinst refreshing udev rules with udevadm control --reload-rules. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- no debconf information
