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[Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 09:36 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:18:17AM -0400, Chase Douglas wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Normally we do all our packaging and reviewing in lp and bzr. However,
> > the xserver-xorg-input-evdev package is maintained in git at
> > git.debian.org. I have pushed a new version of evdev with gesture
> > changes to git://kernel.ubuntu.com/cndougla/xserver-xorg-input-evdev.git
> > branch ubuntu.
> > 
> > I would like to do a packaging review just like we do in lp, so I'd like
> > to do it over this list if that's alright with everyone. If a better
> > mechanism comes about, feel free to propose it :).
> 
> If -evdev being in debian git is too much of an outlier for the MT
> team's processes going forward, let me know, as it's something we could
> potentially discuss changing.  We primarily do it this way to help
> debian by making it easier for them to cherrypick from our tree, but if
> it's causing trouble in other areas of Ubuntu, then the practice
> probably should be reviewed...

I think it's ok for now, we're all very familiar with git.

Since you chimed in, would you be willing to review the changes and
upload to ubuntu when everything is good? Nothing substantial has
changed in the code since RAOF reviewed it, only one tiny bug fix to
check for a NULL pointer before dereferencing it. The real changes are
just in the packaging since we're transition from *-gevdev to *-evdev
and dealing with API/ABI issues with proper build and runtime deps.

Thanks,

-- Chase