Buffer related input event bug? -- 1.4.1~git20080131

[Rohan Lean]

On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 17:58 +0200, Simon Thum wrote:
> Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> > Simon Thum recently did an work to improve the acceleration scheme on 
> > Xorg. Unfortunately it only resides in repository from upstream. Try it 
> > and see if solve your needs. There is some info here:
> > 
> >      http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8583
> > 
> It sounded more like the game would overflow with events, which _may_ be 
> related to the overall rework of input events during the time the OP 
> mentioned, most notably hotplug.
> 
> My patch doesn't affect the number of input events generated, I don't 
> think will help.

I too do not think it would help, especially since I do not use any
acceleration. But if someone still thinks it is a good idea, I can try
it.

That brings me to the next (and rather xorg unrelated) point:
Once there exists a version where the bug is fixed, how can I update to
it while causing minimal confusion to my package manager?