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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:48:05PM -0400, Chase Douglas wrote:
> 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?

Sure, just give me nudge when it's ready to look at.

> 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.

Sounds pretty straightforward.

Bryce