Yes, /etc/default/laptop_mode seems more sane as a second config file
for laptop-mode-tools.
As you mentioned in Bug #250935 we have to keep in mind that enabling
the laptop-mode-tools by default is in fact a necessary change to fix
the load cycling issue for example.
IMHO laptop-mode-tools needs to be enabled by default.
(/etc/default/laptop_mode does provide a place to optionally disable
this autoinstalled package alltogether.)
Whether laptop_mode (ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE_ON_BATTERY) is enabled or not by
default is another question.
Since hardy, as a userfriendly distro suitable for laptops, has allways
set /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode to 2 when on battery ("laptop-tools" script
hacked into pm-utils) I'd tend to propose that the laptop-mode.conf
default (_ON_BATTERY=1) can just be kept. It steps in for the pm-utils
script that got removed in intrepid.
Enabling laptop-mode-tools can be considered a necessary bugfix change,
and not entering /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode on battery any more can be
considered a regression.
Looks as this would also make much transition magic unnecessary. The
comment that debian packages have in place might suffice.
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remove laptop-mode settings from /etc/default/acpi-support
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244838
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