Bug#1001946: xfce4-sensors-plugin: Please drop the Recommends: hddtemp

[Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>]

On 2021-12-19 13:07, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> 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.

I was actually wrong about that. It appears that xfce4-sensors-plugin
also build-depends on hddtemp, therefore that should be dropped to,
probably de-activating the support at build time.

Thanks,
Aurelien