I don't think this is the right way to go about changing interfaces between packages in Debian. The correct way to go about this is to propose a new packaging policy that packages use the sysfs interface. When that's approved then issue bug reports against all packages using the old interface. Then when all or most of those packages have switched to the new interface release a package which disables the old interface.
This is the same process other packages go through, whether things like Emacs or Apache or Inetd or anything else that has to interface with other packages. They don't just change interfaces and leave it to people to discover everything else is broken. On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Debian Bug Tracking System < ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote: > > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the linux-image-2.6.29-2-686 package: > > #533574: linux-image-2.6.29-2-686: Optoin CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER is not > set -- battery monitors don't work > > It has been closed by Bastian Blank <wa...@debian.org>. > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a > better one in a separate message then please contact Bastian Blank < > wa...@debian.org> by > replying to this email. > > > -- > 533574: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533574 > Debian Bug Tracking System > Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Bastian Blank <wa...@debian.org> > To: 533574-d...@bugs.debian.org > Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:15:44 +0200 > Subject: Re: Bug#533574: linux-image-2.6.29-2-686: Optoin > CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER is not set -- battery monitors don't work > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:16:25PM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote: > > The ACPI battery module appears to be built with CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER > > unset. That leaves it pretty useless. Things like gui battery monitors > and > > even powertop require this file to report the battery usage. > > The information is properly exported in the sysfs: > | $ cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/{charge_{full,now},voltage_now} > | 5450000 > | 5450000 > | 8316000 > > If the tools are not able to use them, it is their bug. No bug in the > kernel. > > Bastian > > -- > There is an order of things in this universe. > -- Apollo, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1 > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Gregory Stark <st...@enterprisedb.com> > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org> > Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:16:25 +0100 > Subject: linux-image-2.6.29-2-686: Optoin CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER is not > set -- battery monitors don't work > Package: linux-image-2.6.29-2-686 > Version: 2.6.29-5 > Severity: wishlist > File: /lib/modules/2.6.29-2-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/battery.ko > > The ACPI battery module appears to be built with CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER > unset. That leaves it pretty useless. Things like gui battery monitors and > even powertop require this file to report the battery usage. > > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: lenny/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to > C) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.29-2-686 depends on: > ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration > management sy > ii initramfs-tools [linux-initr 0.91e tools for generating an > initramfs > ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre11-4 tools for managing Linux > kernel mo > > Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.29-2-686 recommends: > ii libc6-i686 2.9-16 GNU C Library: Shared > libraries [i > > -- debconf information: > linux-image-2.6.29-2-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.29-2-686: true > linux-image-2.6.29-2-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.29-2-686: > linux-image-2.6.29-2-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.29-2-686: > linux-image-2.6.29-2-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.29-2-686: > linux-image-2.6.29-2-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.29-2-686: > linux-image-2.6.29-2-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.29-2-686: true > linux-image-2.6.29-2-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.29-2-686: true > linux-image-2.6.29-2-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.29-2-686: > linux-image-2.6.29-2-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.29-2-686: false > linux-image-2.6.29-2-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.29-2-686: true > linux-image-2.6.29-2-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.29-2-686: true > shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true > linux-image-2.6.29-2-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk: > linux-image-2.6.29-2-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.29-2-686: false > linux-image-2.6.29-2-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory: > linux-image-2.6.29-2-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.29-2-686: true > linux-image-2.6.29-2-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.29-2-686: true > linux-image-2.6.29-2-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.29-2-686: true > linux-image-2.6.29-2-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.29-2-686: true > linux-image-2.6.29-2-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.29-2-686: > true > linux-image-2.6.29-2-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.29-2-686: > > -- > Gregory Stark > http://mit.edu/~gsstark/resume.pdf > > > > -- Gregory Stark
