This one time, at band camp, Tim Dijkstra said: > Op Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:41:01 +0200 > schreef "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>: > > > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 11:08:24PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > > > Provides simple shell command line tools to suspend and hibernate > > > computer that can be used to run vendor or distro supplied scripts > > > on suspend and resume. > > > > This is something like the fifth package in Debian that attempts to > > do this. What sets is apart from the ones already in Debian? Do we > > really need another one? > > This will make all others obsolete;) > > More seriously, this will be a dependency of HAL and with that of the > whole gnome power management stack. So I think we can't go around it in > the future. I wanted to package it to make sure it plays nice with > uswsusp (another package I maintain). Not that I actually object to the package, but why can't HAL let acpid manage acpi events? I am continually confused by the profusion of packages that offer to work around acpid in order to provide the functionality it could and should be providing. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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