Bug#306950: gpm rate problem

[Guillem Jover]

Hi Osamu,

On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 06:44:04PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> While wondering why my tpconfig package does not work for 2.6 kernel, I
> realized that there were much kernel changes between 2.4 and 2.6.
> 
> sample_rate is one thing I remember affected. (Vaguely)
> 
> So, I am sure gpm is also affected by this change in kernel behavior.
> 
> As I see kernel configuration "HELP", new gpm is available to address
> needs for 2.6.  <http://www.geocities.com/dt_or/gpm/gpm.html>

The official upstream site is <http://linux.schottelius.org/gpm/>, and
personally I'd prefer not diverging even more from upstream, at this
time at least. Those patches should go through upstream, then Debian.

> Although 'autops2' gpm was, I think, debian specific hack, merging
> upstream changes should help situation.
> 
>  Debian GPM:   1.19
>  Upstream GPM: 1.20 
> 
> Guillem Jover, are you still there to maintain this package?  These
> upstream seems to be from 2003.  Maybe you want to check other distro
> too.

We definitely want to sync with upstream, and has been on the TODO
list from the beginning when we took over the package. But at that
time upstream development had stagnated and the previous maintainer
told us that there was not much point in taking the latest upstream
version as Debian contained almost all new changes.

regards,
guillem