Package: flumotion Version: 0.6.1-1.1 Severity: important User: pkg-utopia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: halectomy
Hi, HAL has been deprecated and declared dead upstream so we want to get rid of it eventually in Debian [1]. flumotion has a Suggests: hal dependency. >From quickly glancing over the package, it uses HAL for two things: 1) grant access to audio, v4l, ieee1394 devices (via ACLs). 2) enumerate OSS sound devices. Given that OSS (at least on Linux) is also a deprecated technology it's probably worth considering removing that code. Regarding 1), one possible solution could be to use udev rules apply the necessary access rights, or start the daemon with root privileges, open the devices and dropping your privs. Regards, Michael [1] http://wiki.debian.org/HALRemoval -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
