Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to upgrade GPM in unstable to 1.20.1 (at least) which has > been out for a long time now. It would fix a lot of brokenness in GPM.
> There was a previous discussion in March about this topic, nothing ever > came of it. > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200303/msg00748.html > There were some test packages referenced, I have been using them for 6 > months now without any problems, except for the binary compatibility > problem mentioned in the post. This would be a very good time to upgrade > gpm and transition all of the packages compiled against it. I've just reread the thread and it does not give evidence that 1.20.1 is indeed a lot better and than 1.19.6+debian-patches. > Any thoughts? Afaict updating GPM would be a nice piece of work, requiring these things: * Understand Debian patches. * Verify which of them are necessary. * doing lots of testing, with different mice. This involves pinging bug-submitters. * clean up stuff and get it integrated into upstream. * resolve soname issue. > (I'm not a DD so I can't take any initiative in the upgrade myself) None of the things noted above require DD privileges. :-) However if somebody != [EMAIL PROTECTED] intends to do it (s)he would have to add * coordinate with maintainer to the TODO. cu andreas -- Hey, da ist ein Ballonautomat auf der Toilette! Unofficial _Debian-packages_ of latest unstable _tin_ http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/tin-snapshot/
