Bug#1001946: xfce4-sensors-plugin: Please drop the Recommends: hddtemp
Package: xfce4-sensors-plugin
Version: 1.4.2-1
Severity: minor
Dear maintainer,
xfce4-sensors-plugin recommends hddtemp which is going to be removed from
the archive.
hddtemp is a software from another age that will not be shipped with
Debian Bookworm release [1]. However it could be easily replaced by the
drivetemp kernel module (available since kernel 5.6) which uses the same
hwmon interface as for NVME drives and other systems sensors and is
supported by lm-sensors. It does not require any privileged, as opposed
to hddtemp which runs as a daemon or a setuid binary.
xfce4-sensors-plugin currently recommends hddtemp, and it also depends
on the libsensor5 library from lm-sensors, offering an easy transition.
The only thing to do is therefore to drop the hddtemp recommends. Note
that recommends do not affected installability, so there is no urgency
in doing so, but it should eventually be dropped.
Regards,
Aurelien
[1] https://sources.debian.org/src/hddtemp/0.3-beta15-54/debian/NEWS/
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