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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:57:54PM -0000, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> If this is just for developers, might it be made available in a PPA for them 
> rather than perturb the Ubuntu archive at this point in the release cycle?

It is also necessary for debugging X problems with input devices.

If it's provided in a PPA, this would necessitate requesting users with
input device problems install the PPA in order to assist them, which
seems sub-optimal.

The 'xinput' package is primarily used for debugging and manual
command-line configuration to work around problems, so the risk of
perturbation in the archive seems small to me compared with the
potential benefit of being able to better debug input device problems
in natty going forward.

(nb. I've not actually tested cnd's package yet, so am making some
assumptions regarding what debug info it actually includes...)