Debian Bug report logs - #637351
ITP: urfkill -- urfkill is a daemon for the management of the radio killswitches.

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

From: Keng-Yu Lin <kengyu@lexical.tw>

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

Subject: ITP: urfkill -- urfkill is a daemon for the management of the radio killswitches.

Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:25:48 +0800

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Keng-Yu Lin" <kengyu@lexical.tw>

* Package name    : urfkill
  Version         : 0.2.0
  Upstream Author : Gary Lin <glin@suse.com>
* URL             : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/urfkill
* License         : GPL, LGPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : urfkill is a daemon for the management of the radio killswitches.

urfkill daemon handles the configuration of the rfkill-related
function keys and provides the management of the radio killswitches.

Message #10 received at 637351@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org>

To: Keng-Yu Lin <kengyu@lexical.tw>, 637351@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#637351: ITP: urfkill -- urfkill is a daemon for the management of the radio killswitches.

Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:58:31 +0200

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Quoting Keng-Yu Lin (kengyu@lexical.tw):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: "Keng-Yu Lin" <kengyu@lexical.tw>
> 
> * Package name    : urfkill
>   Version         : 0.2.0
>   Upstream Author : Gary Lin <glin@suse.com>
> * URL             : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/urfkill
> * License         : GPL, LGPL
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description     : urfkill is a daemon for the management of the radio killswitches.
> 
> urfkill daemon handles the configuration of the rfkill-related
> function keys and provides the management of the radio killswitches.


radiowhat? :-)

I guess this is about the buttons that are often used to turn wireless
communication on/off on modern laptops, but this is only a guess.

I would suggest having a more explicit description.

Also, the "Description" you give is a sentence. Short descriptions
(aka "synopsis") shouldn't be sentences, see Developer's Reference.

Something along "wireless killswitch management daemon for laptops"
would be appropriate, imho (assuming the package is indeed what I
think it is..:-))

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Message #15 received at 637351@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Karl Goetz <karl@kgoetz.id.au>

To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Cc: Keng-Yu Lin <kengyu@lexical.tw>, 637351@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#637351: ITP: urfkill -- urfkill is a daemon for the management of the radio killswitches.

Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:55:56 +1000

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On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:25:48 +0800
Keng-Yu Lin <kengyu@lexical.tw> wrote:

> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: "Keng-Yu Lin" <kengyu@lexical.tw>
> 
> * Package name    : urfkill
>   Version         : 0.2.0
>   Upstream Author : Gary Lin <glin@suse.com>
> * URL             : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/urfkill
> * License         : GPL, LGPL
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description     : urfkill is a daemon for the management of the
> radio killswitches.
> 
> urfkill daemon handles the configuration of the rfkill-related
> function keys and provides the management of the radio killswitches.

Hi,
How does it differ from rfkill, already in the archive? Perhaps the
description could be updated to make this clear.
thanks,
kk

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Message #20 received at 637351@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Keng-Yu Lin <kengyu@lexical.tw>

To: Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org>

Cc: 637351@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#637351: ITP: urfkill -- urfkill is a daemon for the management of the radio killswitches.

Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:23:23 +0800

2011/8/11 Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org>:
> Quoting Keng-Yu Lin (kengyu@lexical.tw):
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Owner: "Keng-Yu Lin" <kengyu@lexical.tw>
>>
>> * Package name    : urfkill
>>   Version         : 0.2.0
>>   Upstream Author : Gary Lin <glin@suse.com>
>> * URL             : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/urfkill
>> * License         : GPL, LGPL
>>   Programming Lang: C
>>   Description     : urfkill is a daemon for the management of the radio killswitches.
>>
>> urfkill daemon handles the configuration of the rfkill-related
>> function keys and provides the management of the radio killswitches.
>
>
> radiowhat? :-)
>
> I guess this is about the buttons that are often used to turn wireless
> communication on/off on modern laptops, but this is only a guess.
>
> I would suggest having a more explicit description.
>
> Also, the "Description" you give is a sentence. Short descriptions
> (aka "synopsis") shouldn't be sentences, see Developer's Reference.
>
> Something along "wireless killswitch management daemon for laptops"
> would be appropriate, imho (assuming the package is indeed what I
> think it is..:-))
>
>

Thanks for the suggestion. I modified the description as below.I hope
that it is better explained and understandable.

Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: "Keng-Yu Lin" <kengyu@lexical.tw>

 * Package name    : urfkill
  Version         : 0.2.0
  Upstream Author : Gary Lin <glin@suse.com>
 * URL             : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/urfkill
 * License         : GPL, LGPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : wireless killswitch management daemon for laptops

 urfkill daemon provides the management of the rfkill-related hotkeys
 and the killswitches in a more configurable way for the common RF
 devices, e.g. WiFi, Bluetooth, WWan, etc. urfkill handles the various
 key codes (KEY_WLAN, KEY_BLUETOOTH, KEY_RFKILL, etc)
 and toggles the killswitches based on a pre-defined policy.

Message #25 received at 637351@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Keng-Yu Lin <kengyu@lexical.tw>

To: Karl Goetz <karl@kgoetz.id.au>

Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, 637351@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#637351: ITP: urfkill -- urfkill is a daemon for the management of the radio killswitches.

Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:34:56 +0800

2011/8/11 Karl Goetz <karl@kgoetz.id.au>:
> Hi,
> How does it differ from rfkill, already in the archive? Perhaps the
> description could be updated to make this clear.
> thanks,
> kk
>

"rfkill" package in the archive is just a simple utility for switch
on/off the RF device.
urfkill handles the hotkeys (KEY_WLAN, KEY_BLUETOOTH, KEY_RFKILL, etc)
and can be configurable to behave differently on the key pressed.
Say, one may like the bluetooth to be switched off too on KEY_WLAN,
whereas in fact KEY_WLAN is for Wifi only, at least literally.

Message #30 received at 637351@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org>

To: Keng-Yu Lin <kengyu@lexical.tw>

Cc: 637351@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#637351: ITP: urfkill -- urfkill is a daemon for the management of the radio killswitches.

Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:57:19 +0200

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Quoting Keng-Yu Lin (kengyu@lexical.tw):

> Thanks for the suggestion. I modified the description as below.I hope
> that it is better explained and understandable.
> 
> Package: wnpp
>  Severity: wishlist
>  Owner: "Keng-Yu Lin" <kengyu@lexical.tw>
> 
>  * Package name    : urfkill
>   Version         : 0.2.0
>   Upstream Author : Gary Lin <glin@suse.com>
>  * URL             : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/urfkill
>  * License         : GPL, LGPL
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description     : wireless killswitch management daemon for laptops
> 
>  urfkill daemon provides the management of the rfkill-related hotkeys
>  and the killswitches in a more configurable way for the common RF
>  devices, e.g. WiFi, Bluetooth, WWan, etc. urfkill handles the various
>  key codes (KEY_WLAN, KEY_BLUETOOTH, KEY_RFKILL, etc)
>  and toggles the killswitches based on a pre-defined policy.

Maybe just avoid starting sentences with "urfkill" as it is always
wierd to have sentences beginning with a lowercase letter.

A common trick is using "The <foo> program|daemon". Also avoid "e.g."
which is a latinism that's too often used in English..:). I propose
parenthesis...another option would be using "such as". Replace "etc."
with an ellipsis (...) as it avoids the tricky use of a dot before and
after a closing parenthesis.

That would give:

The urfkill daemon allow managins the rfkill-related hotkeys
and the killswitches in a more configurable way for the common RF
devices (WiFi, Bluetooth, WWan...). It handles the various
key codes (KEY_WLAN, KEY_BLUETOOTH, KEY_RFKILL, etc)
and toggles the killswitches based on a pre-defined policy.

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Message #35 received at 637351@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Keng-Yu Lin <kengyu@lexical.tw>

To: Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org>

Cc: 637351@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#637351: ITP: urfkill -- urfkill is a daemon for the management of the radio killswitches.

Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:36:23 +0800

2011/8/11 Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org>:
> Quoting Keng-Yu Lin (kengyu@lexical.tw):
>
>> Thanks for the suggestion. I modified the description as below.I hope
>> that it is better explained and understandable.
>>
>> Package: wnpp
>>  Severity: wishlist
>>  Owner: "Keng-Yu Lin" <kengyu@lexical.tw>
>>
>>  * Package name    : urfkill
>>   Version         : 0.2.0
>>   Upstream Author : Gary Lin <glin@suse.com>
>>  * URL             : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/urfkill
>>  * License         : GPL, LGPL
>>   Programming Lang: C
>>   Description     : wireless killswitch management daemon for laptops
>>
>>  urfkill daemon provides the management of the rfkill-related hotkeys
>>  and the killswitches in a more configurable way for the common RF
>>  devices, e.g. WiFi, Bluetooth, WWan, etc. urfkill handles the various
>>  key codes (KEY_WLAN, KEY_BLUETOOTH, KEY_RFKILL, etc)
>>  and toggles the killswitches based on a pre-defined policy.
>
> Maybe just avoid starting sentences with "urfkill" as it is always
> wierd to have sentences beginning with a lowercase letter.
>
> A common trick is using "The <foo> program|daemon". Also avoid "e.g."
> which is a latinism that's too often used in English..:). I propose
> parenthesis...another option would be using "such as". Replace "etc."
> with an ellipsis (...) as it avoids the tricky use of a dot before and
> after a closing parenthesis.
>
> That would give:
>
> The urfkill daemon allow managins the rfkill-related hotkeys
> and the killswitches in a more configurable way for the common RF
> devices (WiFi, Bluetooth, WWan...). It handles the various
> key codes (KEY_WLAN, KEY_BLUETOOTH, KEY_RFKILL, etc)
> and toggles the killswitches based on a pre-defined policy.

Thanks for the refinement. I hope the description looks better now. :-)

Package: wnpp
  Severity: wishlist
  Owner: "Keng-Yu Lin" <kengyu@lexical.tw>

  * Package name    : urfkill
  Version         : 0.2.0
  Upstream Author : Gary Lin <glin@suse.com>
  * URL             : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/urfkill
  * License         : GPL, LGPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : wireless killswitch management daemon for laptops

  The urfkill daemon allow managing the rfkill-related hotkeys
  and the killswitches in a more configurable way for the common RF
  devices (WiFi, Bluetooth, WWan...). It handles the various
  key codes (KEY_WLAN, KEY_BLUETOOTH, KEY_RFKILL...)
  and toggles the killswitches based on a pre-defined policy.

Message #40 received at 637351@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Keng-Yu Lin <kengyu@lexical.tw>

To: Andrea Bolognani <eof@kiyuko.org>, 637351@bugs.debian.org

Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#637351: ITP: urfkill -- urfkill is a daemon for the management of the radio killswitches.

Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:03:28 +0800

2011/8/13 Andrea Bolognani <eof@kiyuko.org>:
> I believe you could achieve the same effect using a combination of
> triggerhappy and the aforementioned rfkill, and I don’t like the idea
> of having a special daemon running to handle a subset of the special
> keys when there’s a more general solution to the problem already in the
> archive.
>
> That said, urfkill might have advantages I don’t see.
>

"rfkill" has nothing to do with the hotkey management. It is just a
tool to enable/disable a wireless device as specify in the argument.
"urfkill" is a way to manage and toggle these devices based on the
conf file.

The immediate problem is that when KEY_WLAN is commonly generated by
the key press, should bluetooth and 3G be turned off too where there
are in fact keycodes dedicated for each: KEY_BLUETOOTH, KEY_WWAN.

Also as a planned function (but not yet implemented in the code now)
of urfkill, people desire to turn off wifi on the first pressing,
bluetooth on the second and so on... This is only possible if there is
a dedicated daemon for handling this.

Message #47 received at 637351-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Keng-Yu Lin <kengyu@lexical.tw>

To: 637351-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#637351: fixed in urfkill 0.2.0-1

Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:48:24 +0000

Source: urfkill
Source-Version: 0.2.0-1

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

gir1.2-urfkill-glib0_0.2.0-1_i386.deb
  to main/u/urfkill/gir1.2-urfkill-glib0_0.2.0-1_i386.deb
liburfkill-glib-dev_0.2.0-1_i386.deb
  to main/u/urfkill/liburfkill-glib-dev_0.2.0-1_i386.deb
liburfkill-glib0-dbg_0.2.0-1_i386.deb
  to main/u/urfkill/liburfkill-glib0-dbg_0.2.0-1_i386.deb
liburfkill-glib0_0.2.0-1_i386.deb
  to main/u/urfkill/liburfkill-glib0_0.2.0-1_i386.deb
urfkill_0.2.0-1.debian.tar.gz
  to main/u/urfkill/urfkill_0.2.0-1.debian.tar.gz
urfkill_0.2.0-1.dsc
  to main/u/urfkill/urfkill_0.2.0-1.dsc
urfkill_0.2.0-1_i386.deb
  to main/u/urfkill/urfkill_0.2.0-1_i386.deb
urfkill_0.2.0.orig.tar.bz2
  to main/u/urfkill/urfkill_0.2.0.orig.tar.bz2



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 637351@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Keng-Yu Lin <kengyu@lexical.tw> (supplier of updated urfkill package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:06:26 +0800
Source: urfkill
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Architecture: source i386
Version: 0.2.0-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Keng-Yu Lin <kengyu@lexical.tw>
Changed-By: Keng-Yu Lin <kengyu@lexical.tw>
Description: 
 gir1.2-urfkill-glib0 - GObject introspection data for the urfkill library
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 liburfkill-glib0 - wireless killswitch management library
 liburfkill-glib0-dbg - wireless killswitch management library (debug symbols)
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Closes: 637351
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