Bug#522683: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 05:58:49PM +0200, Luca Niccoli wrote: > 2009/4/12 Raphael Hertzog : > > > Expect grumpy people every time that you add something new that they have > > to learn. I also had troubles with hal and X when I tried the X servers in > > experimental. But I have not read any ser

Bug#522683: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-15 Thread Luca Niccoli
2009/4/12 Raphael Hertzog : > Expect grumpy people every time that you add something new that they have > to learn. I also had troubles with hal and X when I tried the X servers in > experimental. But I have not read any serious criticism based on technical > facts in the bug report you showed. I

Bug#522683: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 15:01 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 01:11:26PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > 515214 isn't most users. most users just want things to work. > > But then 515214 appears to be at least a significant amount of users. Anyway, no, it doesn't. > having

Bug#522683: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-12 Thread Michael Meskes
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 01:11:26PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > 515214 isn't most users. most users just want things to work. But then 515214 appears to be at least a significant amount of users. Anyway, having things "just work" and being able to run a system without hal do not contradict each

Bug#522683: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Michael Meskes wrote: > But then 515214 appears to be at least a significant amount of users. Anyway, > having things "just work" and being able to run a system without hal do not > contradict each other. Expect grumpy people every time that you add something new that they hav

Bug#522683: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-12 Thread Michael Meskes
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 09:55:39PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > As (co-)maintainer of pm-utils and hal, I'd prefer if we could work towards > standardizing on one power management stack in Debian (and not install 3 by > default [1]), i.e. I'd support in phasing out acpi-support and would gladly >

Bug#522683: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 14:04 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 09:55:39PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > > As (co-)maintainer of pm-utils and hal, I'd prefer if we could work towards > > standardizing on one power management stack in Debian (and not install 3 by > > default [1]),

Bug#522683: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 11:06:15PM +0200, Bart Samwel wrote: >> 1. The upstream for this package is Ubuntu. Ubuntu has never been very >> cooperative at accepting changes, until recently: our contact Steve >> Langasek has indicated that he is interested in merging most or al

Bug#522683: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-06 Thread Bart Samwel
Michael Meskes wrote: On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 11:06:15PM +0200, Bart Samwel wrote: I'm putting the acpi-support package up for adoption. The RFA bug is here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522683 Given that I already maintain acpid in pkg-acpi, I'm very interested. And yes,

Bug#522683: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-06 Thread Bart Samwel
Hi Steve, On Mon, April 6, 2009 05:44, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 11:06:15PM +0200, Bart Samwel wrote: >> 1. The upstream for this package is Ubuntu. Ubuntu has never been very >> cooperative at accepting changes, until recently: our contact Steve >> Langasek has indicated tha

Bug#522683: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-06 Thread Michael Meskes
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 11:06:15PM +0200, Bart Samwel wrote: > I'm putting the acpi-support package up for adoption. The RFA bug is here: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522683 Given that I already maintain acpid in pkg-acpi, I'm very interested. And yes, the acpi team will w

Bug#522683: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 11:06:15PM +0200, Bart Samwel wrote: > 1. The upstream for this package is Ubuntu. Ubuntu has never been very > cooperative at accepting changes, until recently: our contact Steve > Langasek has indicated that he is interested in merging most or all of > our changes, provide

Bug#522683: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-05 Thread Bart Samwel
Package: wnpp I want to stop maintaining the acpi-support package and am looking for an adopter. This package is relatively high-profile, since it is installed by default on all laptops, and part of it is installed on all ACPI machines. There are some specific challenges with the package that mak