Christian Gogolin wrote: > Package: pm-utils > Version: 1.1.2.3-1 > Followup-For: Bug #481766 > > I would _really_ like to see this bug fixed before Lenny becomes stable, > because of the following reasons:
Lenny is frozen. It is really unlikely that our RMs will grant a freeze exception. I will take the blame for not responding earlier, but see below. > 1) This bug is really enjoying. Do you mean annoying? Anyways, statements like this do generally not help to get an issue addressed, as they add no valuable information. The problem is, that the bug is about adding support for laptop-tools, but I am missing proper justification, why this is necessary, what the underlying problem is and why laptop-mode-tools is the correct solution. Bart was referencing a launchpad bug number, but reading through it, it seems laptop-mode-tools can even worsen the situation regarding the harddisk load/unload cycles. Would simply installing laptop-mode-tools do the right thing out-of-the-box or does it require configuration? If the latter, it would be basically useless, imho. > 2) The suspend/hibernate capability of Linux has a bad reputation because of > bugs like that. > 3) It is very hard for a novice to find out what is going wrong. > 4) It could be fixed in just a second, as the only thing that is to be done > is to include a simple text file in the package. > 5) There is a patch available since 18 May 2008 (!). > It's obviously important to know if the patch is the right fix. Would it actually help, if we added this hook to pm-utils, given that laptop-mode-tools is not installed by default. I guess we won't add a depedency on pm-utils, given how big this package is and looking through the file list it seems to duplicate functionality from pm-utils (wireless control, lcd brightness, ...) would those two packages actually stomp on each others feet? As a side-note, it is no problem, if this hook is added to the laptop-mode-tools package itself (actually, upstream prefers if such hooks are shipped by the corresponding packages) Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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