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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Stephen Kitt
  • Date: 2011-04-04 16:56:39 UTC
  • mfrom: (1.1.2 upstream)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 14.
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20110404165639-wwp0enzkfqi841i7
* New upstream version:
  - Builds with --as-needed. Closes: #607009.
  - inputattach supports W8001. Closes: #616443.
  - inputattach supports Zhen-Hua. LP: #648945.
* Drop all patches, merged upstream. Drop README.source explaining quilt
  usage, and --with-quilt directive to sh.
* Drop manpages, merged upstream.
* Drop store/restore tools, merged upstream.
* Rework udev rules:
  - provide agents to delay invoking inputattach or jscal-restore until
    they become available;
  - drop jskeepalive and use sleep instead to stop Acrux devices from
    going into a coma (as suggested by Oliver Neukum), for kernels prior
    to 2.6.39;
  - only apply the udev rules when adding devices (as suggested by
    Roberto Neri).
* Standards-Version 3.9.1, no change required.
* No longer ship evtest, its source is maintained separately (and will
  be removed from future upstream versions of joystick).

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.TH jskeepalive 1 "April 7, 2010" jskeepalive
 
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.SH NAME
 
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jskeepalive \- keeps a joystick alive
 
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.SH SYNOPSIS
 
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.BR jskeepalive
 
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.RI "<" device-name ">"
 
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.SH DESCRIPTION
 
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.B jskeepalive
 
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continuously reads from the given joystick device. (This doesn't
 
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prevent other programs from accessing the same joystick device.) This
 
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is necessary for certains joysticks which disappear if they are not
 
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accessed during a given interval (see
 
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/joystick/+bug/448446).
 
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.SH AUTHOR
 
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.B jskeepalive
 
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was written by Stephen Kitt.