Comment 46 for bug 256429

> The thinkfinger packages in my PPA are only a workaround for the underlying bug in hal.
> The upstream hal bug hasn't gotten much attention though.

Yes, I know. But in the meantime, while waiting for upstream to fix their issues, between your workaround and reverting that change I found, we can have a functioning package that delivers the expected behavior. I say let's go with it. The fixes are simple and maintainable.