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Bug#558739: RFH: hibernate -- smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or disk)



On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:49:16AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: normal

> I request assistance with maintaining the hibernate package since
> I don't use it anymore.

> The package description is:
>  The hibernate script helps you in putting your computer to sleep, using one
>  of the various methods available in the kernel.
>  .
>  Hibernate can take care of loading and unloading modules, provides various
>  hacks needed to get some video cards to resume properly under X, can
>  optionally restart networking and system services, and basically do whatever
>  else you ask it. It can be extended by writing new "scriptlets" which run at
>  different points during the suspend process.
>  .
>  Currently the script supports all suspend mechanisms available through the
>  /sys/power/state interface (including ACPI suspend and the in-kernel software
>  suspend), as well as Software Suspend 2 (http://www.suspend2.net)

Have you considered whether this package should instead be consolidated with
pm-utils, the standard component in the freedesktop.org stack for handling
this functionality?

-- 
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