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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
make it "interesting" to maintain, for some value of interesting. The
package provides the following:
1. Power button support for all systems, in the form of package
acpi-support-base.
2. Button support for laptops. Special laptop button translations are
included for various laptop brands and types. This also includes default
scripts for button functionality for some laptops, including wireless
buttons etc.
3. Suspend/resume support. Acpi-support used to be one of the primary
suspend packages, before pm-utils came along. Right now, it still
contains the suspend logic, but in the default configuration it
delegates any suspend requests to pm-utils. Still, the legacy suspend
support should keep working for now.
This package receives a pretty steady stream of bug reports due to new
hardware with new button quirks, and it requires active maintenance.
There are several challenges involved in maintaining this package:
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, provided that we send them in in chunks, with proper
rationales.
2. Even though we have an upstream, we build the package as a
Debian-native package, since we have extensively changed the package. We
moved files around etc., and specifying an upstream source tarball
results in an incorrect package being built. :-/
3. Changes from the upstream are extensive:
- We build two packages: acpi-support-base and acpi-support. The
upstream builds only one, for laptops only.
- We have support for "suspend methods", i.e., we can delegate suspend
to pm-utils but we can also handle it ourselves, depending on configuration.
- A very large variety of small changes have been made as well, in
response to bug reports. None of these changes have been sent upstream. :-/
4. Ubuntu is PHASING OUT this package. They have already moved suspend
to pm-utils (but have failed to remove suspend support from
acpi-support). They're currently moving hotkey translation to hal. This
means that soon we will have no upstream that we can follow! Or we
should ensure that Ubuntu's hal changes are included in our version of
hal as well -- no clue how those packages are related, or whether
Ubuntu's changes are going into upstream hal.
5. The kernel is adding more and more native support for these buttons,
so that acpi-support does not need to translate them anymore.
In the end, the package may need phasing out in Debian as well, or it
may need to become the upstream instead of Ubuntu, in which case it
requires extra maintenance. Whatever happens, it will be a challenge to
keep all hardware working properly. Whoever adopts this package will
help to keep extremely large numbers of laptop users happy!
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Source: acpi-support
Source-Version: 0.114-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
acpi-support, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
acpi-support-base_0.114-1_all.deb
to pool/main/a/acpi-support/acpi-support-base_0.114-1_all.deb
acpi-support_0.114-1.diff.gz
to pool/main/a/acpi-support/acpi-support_0.114-1.diff.gz
acpi-support_0.114-1.dsc
to pool/main/a/acpi-support/acpi-support_0.114-1.dsc
acpi-support_0.114-1_amd64.deb
to pool/main/a/acpi-support/acpi-support_0.114-1_amd64.deb
acpi-support_0.114.orig.tar.gz
to pool/main/a/acpi-support/acpi-support_0.114.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 522683@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org> (supplier of updated acpi-support package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:11:37 +0200
Source: acpi-support
Binary: acpi-support acpi-support-base
Architecture: source amd64 all
Version: 0.114-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Acpi Team <pkg-acpi-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>
Description:
acpi-support - scripts for handling many ACPI events
acpi-support-base - scripts for handling base ACPI events such as the power button
Closes: 448673 515707 522306 522683 524074 524075
Changes:
acpi-support (0.114-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Took over package for pkg-acpi. Closes: #522683
* Bumped Standards-Version to 3.8.1.
* Adapted fall back strategy for acpid powerbutton handling. If the old file
is still around we will use it. Closes: #522306
* Make sure xfce4 power manager is recognized too. Closes: #524074, #524075
* Check for 1000H as well in EeePC check. Closes: #515707
* New upstream version: Closes: #448673
* The rfkill interface has changed again in the 2.6.27 release(!), so
play catch-up once more.
* lib/state-funcs: add support for checking the new /sys/class/rfkill
interface for toggling wireless antennas. LP: #267875
* acpi-support.docs: Add installation of README
* control: Add laptop-mode-tools to Suggests
* Add installation for ac.d/ and battery.d/ directories.
(LP: #274599)
* wireless.sh: Fix obviously wrong typo in function call name -
toggleWirelessStates is a non-existant function
(LP: #108897, deb #430895)
* Fix asus brightness hotkeys so lowest/highest brightness recognized
(LP: #76593)
* lib/IBM.config: Change VBE state and POST_VIDEO for 1834's
(LP: #40621, #211285)
* Incorporate a portion of the changes from Debian, as detailed below.
Debian has been accumulating valuable fixes and structural changes for
some years, but it will take some time to digest all of them.
* Let laptop-mode-tools run properly (closes LP: #250938)
- power.sh: remove laptop-mode invocations, should be handled by pm-utils
- acpi-support: remove SPINDOWN_TIME, should be controlled by laptop-mode
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