[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#266942: gpm: Changes /dev/mouse and starts without asking, package removal fails

[Peter Samuelson]

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clone 266942 -1
retitle 266942 gpm: postrm fails
retitle -1 gpm: should not change the /dev/mouse symlink
thanks

[Heikki Kantola]
> But no, gpm had started the daemon and overwritten /dev/mouse
> with link pointing to /dev/gpmdata, which obviously caused havoc with
> my X settings and turned my system into rather unusable state (as my
> dualhead Radeon system has broken text consoles when X is running, see=20
> bug #253088).

We'll definitely rethink the thing about the /dev/mouse symlink.  I
personally don't see the need to do this, so I'll try and find out why
it was done.

As for starting the daemon automatically, that's pretty much how all
daemon packages in Debian work.  I don't consider it a bug.

> And obviously I deciced that I want to get rid of the whole gpm
> package, but apparently the package is so broken that it doesn't even
> allow to be removed:

I'm cloning this bug report since it's actually two separate bugs.  In
the future, if you have two different issues to report, we'd appreciate
getting two separate bug reports.  That makes everything easier to deal
with.  In particular, in this case, I've just fixed the latter bug, but
we haven't decided yet what to do about the former.

Thanks,
Peter

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