Re: Please unblock hal_0.5.8.1-7
Hi Michael,
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 12:47:51AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> I had a discusssion with Sjoerd Simons, the maintainer of hal, on
> #pkg-utopia and we decided that we really want to see etch released with
> hal_0.5.8.1-7.
> The main reason is, that in 0.5.8.1-1 we introduced
> debian-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi, which was an ugly hack, to hide
> local partitions, so they can't be mounted by unprivileged users.
> Unfortunately this also caused major confusions amongst users, because
> it made the partitions invisible from within gnome/nautilus, resulting
> in bug reports like #394155, #395169, #409879 against hal (and surely
> more against gnome-vfs or nautilus).
> In -7 we introduced a much cleaner solution for this.
> Sjoerd also added a patch which fixes the rather important bugs #402835
> and #414787, where hal got stuck when removable media were unplugged
> without unmounting them first (which I fear might happen quite a lot
> amongst users).
Hnnngh. Not RC... but... it makes my USB keychain work right again...
FWIW, this version seems to have used an older edit of my NMU patch, shown
by this diff:
--- hal-0.5.8.1/debian/no-cd-media-check.fdi
+++ hal-0.5.8.1/debian/no-cd-media-check.fdi
@@ -31,11 +31,6 @@
<merge key="info.addons" type="strlist"></merge>
</match>
</device>
- <device>
- <match key="info.product" string="HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GCA-4080N">
- <merge key="info.addons" type="strlist"></merge>
- </match>
- </device>
</deviceinfo>
Can this last product string get re-added in -8 (since I don't imagine it's
tracked anywhere else)?
> * Drop debian-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi in favor of
> debian/patches/55_nonpolkit-mount-policy.patch.
> This fixes the problem that local devices are not shown in nautilus.
> (Closes: #394155, #395169, #409879)
Could you please summarize why this fix is appropriate/required? It's
not obvious to me why hal should be used to manage filesystems on
non-hotpluggable devices.
> There are two issues currently with -7:
> 1.) It's missing a build-dependency on docbook-xml so it fails on
> non-networked buildds. This is already fixed in the pkg-utopia svn for
> -8 and I could upload -8 with this fix alone if the release team agrees
> on that.
AIUI that's a regression against -6 since the docbook docs were not
previously being built. Yes, please fix this.
> 2.) #414417, a problem with luks-enabled, local devices. This is the
> only bug report since -7 was uploaded. We haven't investigated yet, if
> this is a consequence of the changes in -7, but I will do so immediately
> so we potentially could fix that for -8, too.
Ok, thanks.
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