Bug 26343

Summary:	imwheel - a tool to improve mousewheel speed - new package request
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Artem Kurashov <saahriktu>
Component:	New RPM package request	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	ftg
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	x11-driver-input-evdev-2.10.6-3.mga8.src.rpm, imwheel	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Artem Kurashov 2020-03-15 04:46:54 CET

imwheel is a tool for increase speed of mouse wheel (with different settings for each program). imwheel there is in the repos of such distros as Arch, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, openSUSE, Slackware, Ubuntu,... etc.

But long time ago imwheel was obsoleted by Paulo Ricardo Zanoni:
* Tue Apr 13 2010 Paulo Ricardo Zanoni <pzanoni@mandriva.com> 2.4.0-2mdv2010.1
+ Revision: 534193
- Obsolete imwheel

These lines are from .spec file of x11-driver-input-evdev, which forces removal of imwheel package at first system update and blocks the package reinstallation. After that imwheel package can be reinstalled only after upgrading x11-driver-input-evdev package to the new version without "Obsoletes: imwheel" line in the .spec file.

Comment 1 David Walser 2020-03-16 21:58:25 CET

I'm sure it was for a reason, but I can't remember.  Assigning to the current maintainer.

Source RPM: (none) => x11-driver-input-evdev-2.10.6-3.mga8.src.rpm
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud
Version: 7 => Cauldron

Comment 2 Thierry Vignaud 2020-03-17 17:17:12 CET

We would need for someone to want to package & maintain imwheel…

Assignee: thierry.vignaud => bugsquad
Source RPM: x11-driver-input-evdev-2.10.6-3.mga8.src.rpm => x11-driver-input-evdev-2.10.6-3.mga8.src.rpm, imwheel

Comment 3 Frank Griffin 2020-03-20 16:21:10 CET

Assigning this package request to all packagers collectively. On a voluntary basis, one of them
might, if there are no license or other legal issues, want to integrate it to the distribution and
maintain it for bug and security fixes.
You <submitter> might also want to join the packager team to maintain this piece of software: see
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager

Summary: x11-driver-input-evdev forces removal of imwheel => imwheel - a tool to improve mousewheel speed - new package request
CC: (none) => ftg
Component: RPM Packages => New RPM package request
Severity: normal => enhancement

Comment 4 Artem Kurashov 2020-03-20 23:11:54 CET

I can suggest some variants to start with.

The port from modern Fedora 31: https://saahriktu.org/mageia/imwheel-1.0.0-1.maho7.src.rpm
The port from old Mandriva 2007: https://saahriktu.org/mageia/imwheel-1.0.0-0.pre12.2.maho7.src.rpm

PS. The "maho" suffix indicates an unofficial repository in accordance with the distribution policy.

Comment 5 Lewis Smith 2020-06-18 21:16:35 CEST

The global bug assignment got lost... Despite comment 2 (a standard condition, see comment 3), assigning new pkg requests globally (standard practice) allows any interested packager to take it on.

A reminder:
"You Artem might also want to join the packager team to maintain this piece of software: see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager"

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs