FS#14444 - status of xf86-input-magictouch (keep or remove from repo?)

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Friday, 24 April 2009, 06:54 GMT
Last edited by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Sunday, 26 April 2009, 22:56 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

While doing the license rebuilds, I noticed that xf86-input-magictouch wasn't building anymore. I found a commit in git[1] that I believe will fix the build issue but the latest git commit had this message:
"Always fail configure with an error message. This driver is unmaintained and hasn't seen significant fixes. Let it die. If we really need to keep this driver alive, let's wait for a user sighting first."

Should I patch it to build or should we just remove it from the repo?

[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-magictouch/commit/?id=2a6abb40d484dcfe9833ece6a42bb47af97da894
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Closed by  Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Sunday, 26 April 2009, 22:56 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  fixed in xf86-input-magictouch-1.0.0.5-6
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 24 April 2009, 07:47 GMT
I must have missed it with the server-1.6 rebuilds. There's some other drivers around that needed git updates to get built, and also have this final commit message for the configure failure.
My policy was to fix these drivers with latest pre-fail upstream git and leave them in the repos without further support.

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