Ubuntu package does not install udev rule for HID controllers

[Be]

PR 637 (https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/pull/637 ) introduced a udev rule to give users permission to access HID devices. SCons installs this to /etc/udev/rules.d/ if that directory is writable. The udev rule is not installed by the Ubuntu package.

[Sean M. Pappalardo (pegasus-renegadetech)]

Strange, the build/debian/control file says to do a scons install as part of the build so it should be getting written. I've got zero experience with Debian packaging though.

[RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan)]

The scons install does not copy the file to /etc/udev/rules.d/

I believe it's caused by this line:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/blob/master/src/SConscript#L337

I think based on this:
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/udev-rule-in-etc.html

that we're supposed to install our files to /lib/udev/rules.d anyway since /etc/udev/rules.d is for user-installed files.

[Be (be.ing)]

We should fix that. Will that make the file be installed by the Ubuntu package?

[RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan)]

Can somebody try this:
http://downloads.mixxx.org/builds/2.0/release/mixxx-2.0.0-rc1-1.12-git5713-release-trusty-i386.deb

It looks good from dpkg -c:

drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2015-12-16 14:35 ./lib/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2015-12-16 14:35 ./lib/udev/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2015-12-16 14:35 ./lib/udev/rules.d/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 825 2015-12-16 14:35 ./lib/udev/rules.d/40-mixxx-usb.rules

[Swiftb0y (swiftb0y)]

Mixxx now uses GitHub for bug tracking. This bug has been migrated to:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/issues/8306