On Sun, 2017-01-22 at 15:36 +0100, Raphaël Halimi wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry if it has been already answered elsewhere, I didn't find anything > on this matter despite a fair bit of googling (except the two years old > bug #778249). > > So, I'm the maintainer of the TLP package and one of its functions need > the x86_energy_perf_policy binary. It's not mandatory by any means, TLP > offers many other features to save battery power, but my question is > more from personal curiosity. > > Ubuntu provides this tool in the linux-tools package, but in Debian it's > not provided at all. Currently I plan to prepare an upload that I hope > will make it to stretch, which will use a substitution variable to > generate different dependencies for Debian and Ubuntu. > > But still, by sheer curiosity, I'd like to know : is there a reason for > Debian not providing this binary, and/or plans to change that ? I'll add it to the linux-cpupower package. Sorry that this is still different from Ubuntu, but I don't think their packaging is very sensible. Ben. > Please CC me when answering, as I'm not subscribed to the list. > > Regards, > -- Ben Hutchings Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.
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