Debian Bug report logs - #613166
Please stop using HAL

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Please stop using HAL

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:26:00 +0100

Package: wmbattery
Version: 2.40
Severity: normal
User: pkg-utopia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: halectomy

Hi,

as HAL has been deprecated and is officially dead upstream we want to
get rid of it eventually in Debian [1].

Please consider disabling HAL support in wmbattery or porting it to
newer interfaces like upower/libupwer-glib (which is availably on all
Debian architectures) or using sysfs directly.

Regards,
Michael



[1] http://wiki.debian.org/HALRemoval

-- System Information:
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  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

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Message #12 received at 613166@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adam Conrad <adconrad@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <613166@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Please stop using HAL (patch)

Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:53:06 -0600

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Package: wmbattery
Version: 2.41
Followup-For: Bug #613166
User: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu saucy ubuntu-patch



In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to achieve the following:

  * Stop building simplehal backend, as hal is being removed soon.

I suspect this is fairly self-explanatory, so I'll let it speak for
itself.

... Adam

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Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers saucy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'saucy-updates'), (500, 'saucy-security'), (500, 'saucy')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.9.0-0-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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Message #17 received at 613166@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

To: Adam Conrad <adconrad@debian.org>, 613166@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#613166: Please stop using HAL (patch)

Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:18:56 -0400

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Adam Conrad wrote:
> In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to achieve the following:
> 
>   * Stop building simplehal backend, as hal is being removed soon.
> 
> I suspect this is fairly self-explanatory, so I'll let it speak for
> itself.

Without the simplehal backend, wmbattery is useless unless you have 
a /proc/apm.

So, the quality of the Ubuntu patch speaks for itself, certianly..

What really needs to be done, is convert it to whatever power management
thing will be around for at least 2 years before being replaced by some
new power management thing. :P

-- 
see shy jo

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Message #22 received at 613166@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

To: Adam Conrad <adconrad@debian.org>, 613166@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#613166: Please stop using HAL (patch)

Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:30:56 -0400

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I have a patch from Magea to update the /sys/ code to work with a modern
kernel. However, it only works with kernels more modern than currently
included in Debian, so I will not be releasing it for a little while..

-- 
see shy jo

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Message #29 received at 613166@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

To: 613166@bugs.debian.org

Subject: update

Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 11:47:46 -0400

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Unfortunatly, the patch does not seem to work with the 3.8 kernel.

-- 
see shy jo

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Message #38 received at 613166@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

To: 613166@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Please stop using HAL

Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 03:47:56 +0200

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Hi Joey,

> I have a patch from Magea to update the /sys/ code to work with a modern
> kernel. However, it only works with kernels more modern than currently
> included in Debian, so I will not be releasing it for a little while..

Is using upower, as mentioned in my initial bug report, not an option?



-- 
Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the
universe are pointed away from Earth?

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Message #47 received at 613166-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

To: 613166-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#613166: fixed in wmbattery 2.42

Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 19:48:39 +0000

Source: wmbattery
Source-Version: 2.42

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
wmbattery, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 613166@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> (supplier of updated wmbattery package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:29:41 -0400
Source: wmbattery
Binary: wmbattery
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 2.42
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Changed-By: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Description: 
 wmbattery  - display laptop battery info, dockable in WindowMaker
Closes: 613166 727102
Changes: 
 wmbattery (2.42) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Stop building with flash-in-the-pan HAL. Instead update acpi
     interface to use /sys/class/power_supply.
     Note that this needs acpica_version 20011018.
     Closes: #613166
     (Patch developed by Andrew Shadura.)
   * Also added support for upower, which is used by default,
     to avoid chasing kernel sysfs changes.
     (Patch developed by Andrew Shadura.)
     Closes: #727102
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