I request an adopter for the xmacro package. There is not much to fix apart from one FTBFS where I already added a patch. But it doesn't work for me (events are not passed correctly to the user session) and I hardly use it nowadays, and ENOTIME. The package description is: xmacrorec can be used to record mouse and keyboard events on any X11 display. . xmacroplay can be used to playback recorded events or send any other mouse/keyboard events you choose. It is very handy for scripting an X display - for example controlling a presentation in mgp or ultrapoint from a script, network connection... . xmacroplay-keys is a script to help use the above. . Together these utils can be used to record and replay sessions for demonstrations etc. Best regards, Eduard.
Hello, I would be glad to adopt this package if it is OK with you. I am a senior dev newbie with Debian dev/packaging but motivated :D I've talked about the idea to adopt this package to debian-mentors and it seems they agree it could be a good idea. They said to me there is a RC bug (Fails To Build From Source) I should start to fix and than the stretch freeze is close. So do you agree than I adopt xmacro? Can you help me a little to start? What is the next step? Do you have any other advice? Thank you very much for your time. Vincent Carluer
Hello, no special advice. You can take it if you want but I really hope that you actually use it and don't take it as a sandbox for practicing. You can find the diff attached. This is something I wanted to upload today (in the hope that it will make it before freeze) since I forgot about your mail (and I cannot find it anymore in my mailbox, sorry). It's not perfect way of solving this in terms of best packaging practices (inline patch instead of patch series, installed as auto-generated single-debian-patch). But I wouldn't mess with patch series maintenance for such trivial changes. Regards, Eduard.
Hello, The first reason I do it is to help. I have already done modification but no one integrated my RFS: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848384 And now I think Andreas Beckman from QA as uploaded another version... https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=831195 I don't really understand, I am new to the process. Regards, Vincent Carluer 2016-12-31 18:04 GMT+01:00 Eduard Bloch <bloch@unix-ag.uni-kl.de>:
retitle 832150 ITA: xmacro -- Record / Play keystrokes and mouse movements in X displays owner 832150 ! thanks Hello, I've recently discovered xmacro and I've added a feature so it can record delays between events, so the recorded macro contains timing data and the replay matches the original inputs. I'd like to maintain the package! I'm not sure if I should turn into its new upstream as well... Best, Francisco
Hello, Nice :) I dont maintain the package since it wasn't clear some years ago if I should to... Do as you want ;) I don't think I have anything to do on my side. Regards, Vincent Carluer 11 mars 2021 10:24:15 Francisco Demartino <demartino.francisco@gmail.com>:
retitle 832150 ITA: xmacro -- Record / Play keystrokes and mouse movements in X displays thanks (resent, now to control@)
Francisco are you still intended to work on this package? I've been preparing an update, and wanted to see if you still intended to adopt the package or not. Happy to work together. Thanks!
Go for it. Happy to help! Not using Debian a lot recently though.